“Will I see you at the Titanic dinner next month?” enquired Richard Astor, partner with Mark Solms in the most progressive winery in Franschhoek, if not the entire SA, yesterday. The occasion was their annual oesfees, which brings the kief , kool and kleurvol to a former fruit farm of Cecil John Rhodes in the shadow of the Drakenstein Mountain. We were sheltering from the pitiless sun under a spreading oak on Solms-Delta farm while Richard and Mark were looking for something to eat. A time consuming task as the lunch queues were of British dimensions – many and long.