Comments on: The Goat Tower

By: Deborah

Deborah — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:39:21 +0000

I had lunch there last Saturday! The food is excellent and so is the wine.

By: ted

ted — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 11:04:21 +0000

How many goats do you have to squeeze to make a good bottle of wine?

By: Larfin Jackarse

Larfin Jackarse — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 08:41:32 +0000

The steps need to get narrower as they go higher. I know goats like that.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 07:24:27 +0000

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.

By: Sweet Violet

Sweet Violet — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 05:03:29 +0000

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.

By: Lou Smorals

Lou Smorals — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 02:03:19 +0000

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.

By: AM

AM — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 01:54:37 +0000

That´s bizarre.

By: Parker

Parker — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 00:51:23 +0000

No one says why they were built! I'm assuming it's just like a cat tower..for their enjoyment/something to fight over?

By: Justinarino

Justinarino — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 00:22:33 +0000

weird