While our raison d’être will always remain the creation of distinctive wines and therefore the production of quality grapes, we at Creation are at present also blessed with a bounty of apples, pears, quinces, passion fruit, plums, figs and prickly pears. All ripe and plump and irresistible in their deliciousness!

When last have you eaten a prickly pear? Not those lily-livered ones sometimes available at supermarkets but a truly juicy, brimming-with-flavour fresh and sun-ripened prickly pear. You know – the ones you had to handle with care as a child lest you got ‘stung’ by the thorns?

Well, these are the high days of harvest in the Hemel-en-Aarde and our neighbours recently sent us a gift as generous as it is nostalgic. A few dozen fat and flavourful prickly pears arrived on our doorstep – thorns already removed – and we naturally took up the challenge of pairing them with one of our wines, the Creation Chardonnay. We dispatched some of the ripe (green) prickly pears with a bottle of Chardonnay to a friend who is based in the city and she reported back that the chilled fruit and wine made a wonderfully refreshing pairing.
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