Places along the Berg River - Paarl:

Fairview in Paarl is well known for their cheese and wine in the Western Cape, so when visiting Paarl, this farm is a must. They have plenty of wine and cheese to taste, as well as fresh baked bread, olive oil and other condiments in their deli. If a picnic lunch is not to your taste (or to the weather’s) you can choose to have a delicious meal in the Goatshed restaurant instead.

I go there mainly for the cheese, but their Goats do Roam range of wine is an everyday favourite of mine.

Venue:	FairView Wine Estate
Location:	Suid-Agter Paarl Road
Email:	info@fairview.co.za
Phone:	+27 (0) 21 863 2591
Website:	www.fairview.co.za

Fairview Oven Baked Camembert on Toast (Roydon Camembert)

I love this recipe (by Jamie Oliver) and it is easy to scale up and adapt it for however many people you are serving.

Ingredients:

• Fairview Roydon Camembert Wheel
• A clove of garlic
• A drizzle of Olive Oil
• A couple of slices of day-old bread
• Rosemary sprigs
• A handful of dried cranberries and mixed nuts

Method

• Preheat the oven to 180ºC/350ºF/gas 4.
• Leave it in the box, score around the top of a 250g Camembert about ½cm in and cut off the top layer of skin.
• Finely slice a peeled garlic clove and poke it into the top of the cheese with a few fresh rosemary tips.
• Drizzle with a little olive oil then bake in the hot oven for 15 to 20 minutes, or until gorgeous and oozy in the middle.
• Thread bite-sized pieces of stale bread onto stripped woody rosemary sprigs, drizzle them with olive oil and a tiny pinch of sea salt to help them crisp up then lay them on a tray and pop in the oven to cook with the Camembert.
• Finely chop a small handful dried cranberries and mixed nuts and put them in a little bowl.
• Once your bread skewers are golden and crisp and your cheese is oozy, put everything out on a board then dunk a bit of toasted bread in the gooey cheese and dip it in the cranberry and nuts – a little mouthful of heaven.

You don’t have to be so fancy, I just make toast in the toaster and eat it with my cheese, and a good ol’ bottle of Goats do Roam “Bored Doe” red wine!