By Marion Ueckermann
Hopefully you’ve been following my blogs on the Jonker wine estate, Weltevrede, meaning ‘well satisfied’.
If you haven’t read them yet, go to:
http://internationalchristianfictionwriters.blogspot.com/2013/04/like-sweet-wine.html
http://internationalchristianfictionwriters.blogspot.com/2013/04/a-century-old-estate.html
The first intriguing thing my husband, son and I did on this hundred year old wine estate was wine-tasting by candlelight in an underground cellar. This was a first for me. Steyn Fullard, Marketing Manager of Weltevrede, was our host on this unusual experience.
Steyn led us to what looked like a warehouse where large wooden doors led us inside to the cement cisterns beneath the earth. It was dark, damp, and musty. And it was quiet. Candles lit our way as we walked through low-roofed, cemented corridors, moving from one cistern to the next. It felt like we were inside catacombs, as if we had stepped back in time.
Read more at the following link:
http://internationalchristianfictionwriters.blogspot.com.au/2013/04/from-candlelit-cellar-to-cosy-writers.html
If you haven’t read them yet, go to:
http://internationalchristianfictionwriters.blogspot.com/2013/04/like-sweet-wine.html
http://internationalchristianfictionwriters.blogspot.com/2013/04/a-century-old-estate.html
The first intriguing thing my husband, son and I did on this hundred year old wine estate was wine-tasting by candlelight in an underground cellar. This was a first for me. Steyn Fullard, Marketing Manager of Weltevrede, was our host on this unusual experience.
Steyn led us to what looked like a warehouse where large wooden doors led us inside to the cement cisterns beneath the earth. It was dark, damp, and musty. And it was quiet. Candles lit our way as we walked through low-roofed, cemented corridors, moving from one cistern to the next. It felt like we were inside catacombs, as if we had stepped back in time.
Read more at the following link:
http://internationalchristianfictionwriters.blogspot.com.au/2013/04/from-candlelit-cellar-to-cosy-writers.html
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