Booze hounds

Wineries are great for dogs, and they have the best life out of anyone living or working there. They laze around all day, come and go as they please and generally live a very comfortable life, oblivious of all the madness that occurs around them during harvest.

At Jordan, there's a cast of very colourful characters:

Here's Tessa, enjoying a bit of sun. She's the oldest of the lot and is sort of like a grand dame

Lilly, the border collie, is like the mascot of the estate. She's always around greeting guests and loves coming into the cellar and playing a game where you squirt her with a little water with a hose and she tries to catch the stream.

Pippa was a stray puppy who found herself at the estate and literally won the dog lottery of life, as Gary and Kathy took her in.

Picasso belongs to Hylton, who works in the vineyard team and lives in a cottage at Jordan. He's like the cheeky chappy Robbie Williams of dogs. He's a huge flirt, loves siddling up for belly rubs and photo-bombing wedding pictures taken on the lawn near the tasting room. He once came into our cottage and found his way to Laura's bathroom and poked his nose into the shower while she was in it! He has another Jack Russell friend name Da Vinci, but he moved while I tried to take his picture.

 

 

 

Other favourite dogs we've come across in other wineries are pictured below.

 

The lovely one at Beaumont Estate watched us while we tasted their wines:

 

 

The Rhodesian Ridgeback at Buitenverwachting winery who hung out with everyone at the Constantia Fresh event a couple weeks ago was very nonchalant, even when a Jack Russel about a third of her size kept on trying to get it on.