Issue 10: Rolling Hills, Dusty Plains of the deep Southern South African Cape

South east of Stellenbosch, on a dry and dusty peninsula with extraordinary vistas of False Bay to the north-west and the Indian Ocean washing up against the Southern tip and the East coast, lie a handful of exceptionally good olive groves and wineries with their own unique terroir.  Here, farms are separated by many kilometers, with not much in between.  The land is flat or rolling hills.  Gone are the granite slopes of Franschoeck and the pedigreed groves of Stellenbosch.  This land is a pioneering land, with newcomers plowing new groves and experimenting with new methods.  The groves we visited ranged in size from the family grove of Anysbos to Gabriëlskloof to the massive Greenleaf, a grove big enough to have its own mechanical harvesters and giant cold press.  
This edition of the World Olive Press blog can be found here.