| Baudelaire in die Boland [boodskap #29001] |
Mon, 14 February 2000 00:00 |
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Uit "African Cooking" deur Laurens van der Post:
"The wines of Constantia led all others of South Africa from the
early 18th century on and gained an increasing reputation in
Europe. When a young lady in a novel by Jane Austin fainted,
no reader of that day was surprised to learn that she was restored
to her senses with a drop of Constantia. The French poet
Baudelaire, a guest at Groot Constantia in the mid-19th century,
was so charmed by the hospitality, the food and the wine that
he composed a poem containing these lines:
Je prefere au Constance, a l'opium, aux nuits,
L'elixir de ta bouche ou l'amour se pavane...
(I prefer to Constantia, to opium, to nights,
The elixir of your mouth, where love luxuriates.)
Alas, that rare Constantia has vanished, along with the secret
of its making. The very grape from which it was made disappeared
in the 1890's, killed off by the dread pest phylloxera, which also
destroyed many other species at the Cape."
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