HitchDied

HitchDieds in Cape Town Podcast Episode 34

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00:00 Intro
00:22 We had an awesome weekend, so buckle up.
00:45 We went to Robertson for the Harvest Festival
01:01 We went to a hands-on harvest event at Graham Beck
Graham Beck fans
02:17 We started out by picking vigonier grapes
Picking grapes
04:11 Don’t call South African cap classique “champagne” or you’ll piss off the winemarker.
05:10 Sorting the grapes was a FARCE
Sorting grapes

07:06 Then we swtiched to this episode of I Love Lucy
grapestomp
stomps
09:50 Then we took the factory tour, the best part of which was tasting raw grape juice, which looks like dirty mop water but tastes like heaven.
11:35 Then we tasted “the base wines” (whatever that means)
base wines
13:00 Then we “punched down the cap” in some barrels of wine and signed the barrel of grapes we stomped
hitchdiedwine
13:41 And admired the crazy number of bottles of wine fermenting in Graham Beck’s cellar
bubbly
14:33 And we heard plenty about how socially conscious Graham Beck is! Keep it up, you guys!
15:57 The next day we figured we should go do some wine tastings but after one realized we were all wined out.
16:36 And we had dinner at Rueben’s at the Small Robertson Hotel and it was SO YUMMY
18:30 Sign-off!
19:06 EXTRA BIT (I wasn’t that far off the mark!)

4 Comments

  1. what a wonderful , awesome. fantastic weekend!!!!!!! I LOVE that you got to stomp the grapes and work a conveyor belt like Lucy!!!!!!!!!! How great was that you guys????? great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Aunt Sheri and I used to dream about doing those things!!!!!!! I cant wait to tell her!!!!! WOW this is amazing that you two are sharing ALL of this with us!!!! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  2. what a wonderful , awesome. fantastic weekend!!!!!!! I LOVE that you got to stomp the grapes and work a conveyor belt like Lucy!!!!!!!!!! How great was that you guys????? great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Aunt Sheri and I used to dream about doing those things!!!!!!! I cant wait to tell her!!!!! WOW this is amazing that you two are sharing ALL of this with us!!!! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This wont let me post!!!!!! It says I already said this??!!!! Imagine that!!!!!

  3. As you know, I cannot relate to the wine thing. But picking grapes sounds AWESOME (except for the height thing, WTF nature?). That whole “champagne” name thing is weird, though…

    I’m simultaneously grossed out and jealous of your grape-stomping. And hearing that the spit of other people is in there just makes me that much happier I don’t drink wine. :) It sounds tasty, though!

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