The Allesverloren winery, located in Swartland in South Africa, owes its name to the exclamation “All lost” when the owners returning from a supply trip to Stellenbosch found their settlement burned to the ground. About 100 years after this incident
Vin de Liqueur
Ratafia – Multilingual liqueur wine from South Africa
For a long time I have wanted to take a closer look at the numberous wines of the beverage market – there where I buy water, beer and whisky. Looking closer at these wines l hoped to find an interesting sweet wine among them. I found what I was looking for, the packaging and the bottle caught my attention, as did the name Ratafia, which reminded me more of Spain than of South Africa, from where it was packaged, on a winery with the French named Haute Cabrière by Takuan von Arnim obviously of german extraction and possibly a descendant of an author of the song collection Des Knaben Wunderhorn, and finally it found his way into an Upper Bavarian beverage market.