Kenya's extreme winemaking high above the Equator

NAIVASHA, Kenya — The mist lifts from the mountains of Kenya's fabled Rift Valley, better known for its flamingoes and zebras than its wine, as women weave in and out with baskets of grapes on their heads.

It is grape picking time at Kenya's only commercial vineyard.

Dressed in cowboy boots and jeans with three days' stubble and greying hair, manager James Farquharson supervises the harvest and pretty much all else going on at the vineyard.

He dips his hand into one of the baskets and looks at a bunch of grapes with satisfaction.

"We're practically on the Equator and at very high altitude. That makes management of the vines here very different from the way it would be in France or even in South Africa," he explained.

The goal on this more-than-mile-high farm is ambitious -- to produce a quality wine in Kenya.

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