South Africa is a handy wine country in a way. You can get to almost every wine district in not much more than an hour and a half or two from Cape Town. Much like Bordeaux, where the distances are greater than you think. South Africa and Bordeaux also have roughly the same vineyard area.
But it is a deceptive “smallness”.
South Africa has an astonishing variety in climate, nature and of course wine, within this rather limited area. To experience all this, we take you around to (almost) all the wine regions on the tour.
You will experience the cool coastal climate of Walker Bay which produces perhaps South Africa’s best pinot noir and chardonnay.
Farthest north you come to the Swartland, not quite a desert but in any case very hot and dry, where we stay in a hotel that takes you back to the English colonial era in style. Mandatory gin & tonic.
In between we have the two most famous wine districts, Franschhoek and Stellenbosch. Franschhoek is a very small town which, in addition to the wine, is famous for its many restaurants. Stellenbosch, on the other hand, is large, with more than 100,000 inhabitants and a large university, and many exciting wineries to visit. Wines are thus made today in many different styles, and many of them are world class.
Discover South Africa, the fantastic wine country, with us.
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More inspiration: You can get an even better feeling for what you will experience on this tour if you visit the latest tour’s own Facebook group. Lots of pictures and videos from the tour (join the group and you’ll get an update when we post new contents): The wine tour to South Africa 2023.
