Bounce Magazine May 2015
Featuring the Kaiser Chiefs, The Suffolk Show, Seckford Hall Review, Fathers Day Fashion and The Latitude Festival preview.
Featuring the Kaiser Chiefs, The Suffolk Show, Seckford Hall Review, Fathers Day Fashion and The Latitude Festival preview.
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MAY <strong>2015</strong> | ISSUE #31 | FOOD & DRINK<br />
Wines<br />
of South<br />
Africa<br />
It is believed that human life<br />
started in South Africa about<br />
150,000 to 200,000 years ago.<br />
BY ‘WINE BUFF’ FRED FISHER<br />
DNA analysis supports this. A<br />
77,000 year old mathematical<br />
tablet was found in a cave near<br />
Blombas in the Southern Cape,<br />
From this long history of human activity it took<br />
until the 1600’s for vine growing and winemaking<br />
to take effect. Jan Van Riebeck was the first<br />
Dutch Governor in 1652 to grow grapes, which<br />
led to making wine in 1659. This settlement<br />
supported Dutch Traders journeying on their way<br />
to the East for the spice trade.<br />
In 1688 French Huguenots arrived and settled in<br />
Franchhoek, nowadays a top wine area. It is not<br />
surprising then that most grapes grown nowadays<br />
are of Classic European varieties and mainly<br />
French in origin.<br />
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