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Parker
No one says why they were built! I’m assuming it’s just like a cat tower..for their enjoyment/something to fight over?
Lou Smorals
Can’t speak for the others, but the one at Fairview was built because goats like to have stuff to climb. The estate sells goat cheese, etc. as well as wine.
The tourist-attractiness of it all probably didn’t hurt, but it was a much smaller deal back then what with apartheid and all.
Sweet Violet
I have been to the Fairview winery. Among other things, they produce a wine named “Goats do Roam” (a very bad pun on Cote du Rhone) which features a drawing of the tower on the label. The tower was built to give the goats something to climb, which they do with great abandon.
The goat tower is not a particularly big deal in terms of attracting tourists…none of the local tourist literature I have seen features it. But Paarl (Afrikaans for “Pearl”), along with Franschhoek, is part of the Western Cape’s Wine Country, much like California’s Napa and Sonoma Valleys, and attracts considerable interest for that reason alone. South African wines are lovely, BTW.
Thomas
Goats do love climbin’ stuff. There’s a guy in town who has goats in a pen in his front yard. There’s a small pond, as well as several other things for the goats to do, but they all crowd together on a cement bench because its the highest thing to stand on.
Larfin Jackarse
The steps need to get narrower as they go higher. I know goats like that.
Deborah
I had lunch there last Saturday! The food is excellent and so is the wine.
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