Muscadel e ne ee hara mefuta e meng e hlahisitseng veine ya pele Afrika Borwa, morao ka 1659, ka mora dilemo tse seng kae Jan Van Riebeeck a fihla Kapa. Muscadel o mosweu le omukgubedu mmoho le Pontac e tsweu, Frontinac etshweu le Steen di ne dile hara mefuta e beileng veini ya tswekere ya tlhaho ya Constantia mmapeng dientjhuring tsa bo 18 ne 19.
Veine e ile ya tuma mose ho mawatle, thatohatsi makgotleng a borena Europe, eileng ya etswa thotokiso e etswang di roki tse tummeng le bangodi. Jane Austen waMrs Jennings wa sense le sensibility, mohlala, ha Charles Baudelaire thotokisong ya hae (les fleur du mal) ha a ne a bapisa le kgohedi ya lerato la hae.
Nako o e tlile ka pheletsong ha Phylloxera, ha kokonyana ya sap e hlasela difate naheng, e otlile Afrika Borwa ka 1988. Ho tloha hoo, difate di tsa faolwa ho tswa dikutu tsa metso tse neng di sahlaselwe ke dikokonyana, tseo di ileng tsa iswa North America.Afrika Borwa e ne ele e nngwe ya dinaha tse seng kae tse sentjhuring y abo 20 e neng e hlahisa veine ya Muscade e kgubedu ho feta e tswheu. Maemo a ile a fetoha ka mora nako, aqetella e arotswe dikoto tse pedi ho tlowa mohlang oo.
Le ha sebaka se sa hlahise hantle ka dilemo lemo, empa serapa difate tsa morarai se dula se fumaneha dubakeng ngata tse hlahisang ka hare ho naha.
Robertson Valley e nale dirapa tsa difate tse ngata tsa Muscadel, tse itshetlehileng hodima halofo ya sebaka se sa hlahising hantle. Veine e tshweu e tswa ho alkalineng e nyane, mobung o nonneng wa Klein Karoo, ha mefuta e sebetsa hantle mobung o kopaneng. Mefuta en aka bobedi e rata maemo a lehodimo a futhumetseng a ommeng a lehodimo.
Mofuta ona o monyane ho isaho itekaneleng ka boholo, menokotshwai e kgidikwe. Mofuta o nale mmala mosehla bo botala, ha mmalawa wa mofuta o mokgubedu otlowa ho o kganyang hoy a o mokgubedu bo tebileng, mme ho itshetlehile ho disele.
Makgasi a tsona ka bobedi ke mofuta o motala bo tebileng, o none le marete a mararo. Disinyi le mafu Mofuta ona o ratwa ho senngwa ke letsatsi e bile tshaba bosweu bo rusitseng le hlobo,hlobo, kokwana e jang difate le ho bola.
Translated by Sebongile Sonopo