Responsible Wine Tourism at Backsberg

Here's a lovely recap of our local Cape Town Slow Food convivium's recent outing to the Backsberg wine estate in Paarl. The estate is the first carbon-neutral winery in South Africa, and makes some exceptional wines.

And, I'm happy to see that the Slow Food movement in Cape Town is finding its legs at last.

A posting worth a read.


Aside 1: If you're keen on 'green' wine, there's also a world's first biodiversity wine route in the Cape Town area, just over the pass to the east in the Theewaterskloof Municipality (Elgin, Grabouw, Villiersdorp, Greyton, Caledon, etc.). It's called the Green Mountain Eco Route. Also worth a squizz.

Aside 2: There are also other carbon-neutral wine estates out there. Beaumont, in Bot Rivier (also in the Theewaterskloof Municipality), is one that I'm aware of, and I'm sure there are others (and others in the process of becoming so).

Aside 3: And, if you're wondering why all this 'green stuff' in Theewaterskloof, they're smack in the heart of the Kogelberg Biosphere, part of the UNESCO Man and the Biosphere programme.

Responsible Wine Tourism at Backsberg