Banele Vakele of Tembela Wines.
Banele Vakele laughs heartily as he tells me the story of arriving from Burgundy in France with his arm in a sling. He and fellow Cape Winemakers Guild Protégé Thato had gone horse riding somewhere in the Rhône Valley. Thato's horse got spooked and Banele was making fun of him when his own horse bucked and threw him clean off.
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