WHO LIVES HERE?
Bianca Antunes and Rob de Barros
WHERE Tesselaarsdal, Western Cape
SIZE 66m2
Our cottage has all the modern-day conveniences but is kind to the environment and kind to us. – Bianca
In 2020, they were two regular city kids from Sea Point, with words like “Uber Eats” and “promenade” part of their everyday vocabulary. But since living in Tesselaarsdal, new phrases such as “gravity-fed toilet” and “future-proof vineyard” now roll off their tongues just as easily.
Here, Bianca Antunes and her life partner Rob de Barros's one-bedroom home, Vineyard Cottage, sits on top of a hill overlooking the Overberg Valley and surrounded by the Riviersonderend Mountains. The reason for them settling in this corner of the country, 25km outside Caledon? A vineyard – Bianca's longstanding dream.
“It took me nine months to find a piece of sloping land where I could plant my vineyard so that one day I would be able to produce my very
