If overheard snippets of conversation and an explosion of new wine-making courses are anything to go by, garagiste wine-making has become hugely popular in the Western Cape of late. In case you don't know, a garagiste is essentially someone who engages in the art of home-based wine-making - or garage wine-making.

This vine is growing over the patio in our back garden; I imagine we'll need a few more vines if we want to become garagistes. Apparently 100kg of grapes will give you around 80 or 90 bottles of wine. I estimate we could get about 300g of grapes from our vine later in the season - if we look really, really hard. ;-)