Senior student and budding winemaker Riaan Smit continues his harvest oddyssey.
The 10 would-be winemakers of Class of 2011 at Elsenburg have so far made about 35 000 liters of wine ?+¦-+???+¦-ú?-¦?+¦-ú?+¦+¦ the most wine by any final year B Agric class in many years. We will probably make more than 50 000 liters because we have not started on our Shiraz, Merlot or Cabernet Sauvignon blocks.
In the last couple of years the class was usually 20 students – twice the current size ?+¦-+???+¦-ú?-¦?+¦-ú?+¦+¦ and student winemakers were only assigned 10 or 15 rows of a vineyard block to make wine. This year, entire blocks became the responsibility of individual students or groups of students, with the result that each student is making much more wine, and a greater variety, than students of previous years.
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