South Africa have just become world champions in rugby, but they are also good at making wine. Several hundred years ago, the country was known for its sweet muscat wines (Constantia) and just after the fall of the apartheid regime in the early 1990s and the opening of the country, they became experts in easy-drinking wines at low prices.
Now, South Africa profiles itself as a producer of exciting and unusual wines that we cannot find anywhere else. And rightfully so. There are fantastic conditions here both in terms of climate, weather, soil, grape varieties, and skilled and enthusiastic winemakers. Some of them have old vines and see them as a great asset. There are almost 100-year-old vines of semillon, chenin blanc and cinsault in South Africa. Of course, not everyone has vines this old and it is not a prerequisite for quality.
There is an abundance of interesting wines and winemakers experimenting, with classic grape varieties or more unusual ones. We will see (and of course taste) many examples of this during our tour which takes us from Cape Town down to Elgin and Overberg, to Hermanus and Walker Bay, to Franschhoek, Swartland and to Stellenbosch.
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.
