Cape Dutch

A relatively small operation, it has an intimate feel with two rustic, brilliant white Cape Dutch buildings — a tasting room and a restaurant — surrounded by 16 acres of vines.

The building's neoclassical columns and Cape Dutch additions serve as a reminder of the country's colonial past and some say there is now the chance to create something that better reflects South Africa's diversity.

The emerging-artists show, “On the Cusp,” resided in a more strait-laced setting, a classic Cape Dutch manor house in the center of town, made available by Distell, a Stellenbosch-based liquor company that sponsored the section.

Back lives at Fairview, in a Cape Dutch house built on a hilltop in 1693.

The village, Prince Albert, sometimes has the look of a sleepy frontier settlement out of the old American West, but it is known among travel connoisseurs for pristine examples of 19th-century Cape Dutch architecture, with their signature rounded gables, and for tasty figs and olives, and grazing sheep that are raised for mohair and the most tender lamb.