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Today was a special day for the wine nerd in me. I got to visit my favorite winery in South Africa: Cape Point Vineyards. They are the southernmost winery in the country and the grapes are grown where they probably shouldn’t survive on the windy cape peninsula.  Duncan Savage the surfer wine maker spent the morning with us; we rode in the back of his pickup straight up the mountain, tasted all the wines in their new tasting room and then he took us to the winery. The winery itself is situated on an old mine and the facility was an authentic “not open for wine tours” kind of place.  Duncan climbed over the wine barrels and took some samples of wine to be released next year; for this he used the must have glass utensil called a wine thief to steal samples from the barrels. Their Sauvignon Blanc is great, but the Semillon and the flagship blend Isliedh is awesome. The 2009 vintages is supposedly going to be even better! Here is the wine at systembolaget.

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