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The chapel on the Montpellier wine estate offered many good photo opportunities. These are by Richard (left) and Anna.

Dave and Barbara Gordon ending the weekend on a Neels Beyers photographed the Montpellier wine cellar.
sweet note at the 'Bouval' restaurant at Montpellier.

Tulbagh: De Oude Drostdy and Montpellier from p17
Our group was indeed privileged The wining and dining and pho- photographic attraction. As are the
because Richard employed the tographing in historical surrounds many buildings, cellar and manor
Goldschmidt charm to convince the continued on the Sunday at Mont- house, which is now a historical
curator of De Oude Drostdy muse- pellier wine estate, named by French monument after it was restored in
um to not only open for us on the Hugenout Jan Imbert in 1714 after the early 2000s.
Saturday, but also provide a won- the French town from which they A pizza lunch and (optional) tasting
derful lunch and a really interesting escaped. of the estate's award-winning wines
talk about the history of this nation- The chapel on the hill, dramati- at Die Bouval was a fitting note to
al monument. cally framed by clouds, is a popular end the wonderful weekend.
Designed by architect Louis Michel
Thibault in 1804 as a court — com-
plete with cells — and residence for
the magistrate, this was one of the
first buildings in Tulbagh.
It was beautifully restored after the
famous earthquake in 1969 and is
now a cultural-historical museum
housing, among the antique Cape
furniture and household items, a col-
lection of gramophones.
It overlooks the Drostdy-Hof wine
cellar, one of the oldest private sher-
ry cellars in South Africa, and our
group was welcomed with glasses
of 40-year old sherry. We could also
sample the Drostdy-Hof wines, pro- We encountered beautiful landscape scenes driving between venues. Lesley
duced there since 1973. Parolis photographed Kim Stevens capturing the view with her drone.

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