Posts Tagged ‘Grieve Family’

Avondale – an exercise in Bio-Logics

Sunday, June 20th, 2010
I have known the Grieve family since 1958.  The current custodian’s grandmother Julie and my mother Dulce were the stalwarts of the National Council of Woman and the Black Sash and village municipal councillors and ultimately Julie became Mayor of Durbanville and my mother became Mayor of Gordon’s Bay In those early days, the Grieves ran a successful business known as Vital Health Foods if memory serves me correctly producing health supplements. Now the family, under the custodianship of Johnathan Grieve, Julie’s grandson runs a superb winemaking operation in Paarl called Avondale. The first thing that must be said is that Avondale produces some
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