Now I come to a section that I rather would not. I find it hard to tell you this and I really don't know where to start so I will start somewhere. It is hard for me to tell you that you are wrong as far as the history of grape growing and wine producing in SA goes. I know that you are a teacher but you obviously have been mislead because I can't believe you would deliberately perpetrate a lie.

Wine production originally started in SA and spread to the rest of the world. How do I know this. You only need to closely examine history.

The First Fleet sailed into Botany Bay and established a colony there. We will not dispute the truth of that but when the colonists headed inland and along the coast to explore they came across a fully established civilisation. There was multi storied buildings, paved roads and even horseless carriages. The explorers found that these people were growing what they called vines from which a rather potent drink was made. Now these explorers quickly realised that money could be made selling these secrets across the sea.

Needless to say they hired the first sailing ship to take them back to England. The English people were not really that interested but across the channel the French, the Germans and the Italians quickly jumped on the bandwagon and started to produce these potent drinks. Now of course everybody wants to take credit with this great discovery but as you can see it was really in SA that it started and then spread across the rest of the civilised world.