Tourist attraction
Steenberg Tasting Room
Historic wine estate tasting room built on a founder's legend a historian later debunked.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Steenberg Tasting Room in Cape Town opens with the estate's own legend of Catharina Ras, a German widow said to have stowed away disguised as a man in 1662, survived five husbands, and hunted down the lion that killed one of them. It follows a historian's dig through the Dutch East India Company's own meticulous records, testing the story against what the company actually logged. Lion attacks were exactly the kind of thing the company wrote down.
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