Jordan restaurant Cape winelands

When I started visiting Stellenbosch and Paarl the Cape winelands for the first time as a student, eating was the furthest thing from my and my companions’ minds. The main aim was to find wineries that did not charge you for tasting and then to schmooze the staff behind the tasting counter so that you could imbibe as much free wine as possible in a short space of time, before moving on to the next farm like a swarm of thirsty locusts in battered Volkswagen Golfs. Often we would completely forget to eat, only realising at 4p.m. that we had consumed close to our own bodyweight in wine but nothing more than the odd water biscuit by way of food.