Buitenverwachting

This guide to Buitenverwachting outside Cape Town starts with a Norfolk pine planted on the slope two hundred fifty years ago and still towering over the farm's Cape Dutch gables. It traces the estate back to 1773, when it was carved off the old Constantia land and given a name that was almost a dare: beyond expectation. You'll hear about Ryk Arnoldus Cloete's 1825 gamble on ninety thousand vines, and how the fortunes of the farm rose and fell under the same mountain and the same rain. Listen for how many owners that one tree has outlasted.