Wine Farmers

A compilation of edited extracts from Susan Levine’s book, Children of a Bitter Harvest, an account of the life of children in the Cape Winelands.

Pressed against the mountain, above the splendid Franschhoek valley, is the new small vineyard site from which Gottfried Mocke will make a pinot noir.

At the end of a long, hot valley somewhere inland from Elands Bay on the Cape West Coast, one can find vines that are among the oldest in the country.

Farmers in the WC were overjoyed last Friday when the state mining company’s applications to prospect on their properties were officially withdrawn.