Dan's Adventure

I’ve never been the biggest fan of wine so I hadn’t planned to do a wine tour whilst in South Africa. The chance to do a wine tasting at one of the campsites for the grand sum of £5 was however to good an opportunity to pass up. The wine tasting took place on our final night of the Acacia Africa tour from Kenya to Cape Town at a campsite called Highlands which is owned by Sparky. I drank a bit too much to remember the brand name or the names that the wines are exported as, so if anyone else can remember, please remind me via the comments. Sparky taught us how to smell the wine, how to sip it to savour the flavour and how to drink it, but at the end of the day, they all just tasted like wine. The best drink of the day was a shot known as “Little Bastard”, 70% alcohol that left a bit of a burning sensation in the throat. Luckily I had a bottle of wine to chase it down with.