Welcome To The CapeWinelands

With its history of making the first wine in 1659, South Africa has never stopped to prove its being in the top 10 of making excellently fortified and port-style wines at a world-class. There are districts in Cape wine lands that are divided into regions that are concentrating near and around Cape Town. With so many beautiful valleys, green romantic surroundings, amazing terraces of vineyards plantations, it is all about a crisp and perfect atmosphere that creates thirsty for wine lovers who happen to visit the region. There are more than 148 wine farms with the most beautiful gardens, exclusive hotels, fine dinings, restaurants for local and international cuisines. There are no drinking methods unless you want our sommelier to take you through all best, and we know just where to take you!

  Best Cape Town Wine Tours & Tastings

A touch on the Winelands! History says that researchers took the liberty to do a study on wine and distinguished that wine is good for you as it helps fight those antioxidants and many more other potential diseases; particularly red wine does it. Well, welcome to the Cape, the home of the best to ever be Wine. With a knowledgeable Private Guide, you will be escorted through the Winelands, experiencing beautiful landscapes, mountains, and vegetation around you. This kind of tour is filled with a lot of background on where the wine is derived. As your palate appreciates the wine surrounding the insides of your mouth, a brief precise history of what you’re enjoying is provided. This is to give you an idea of how best wine is made!? With the Cape Winelands; history has unfolded drastically over the last 350 years with a very rich tapestry of certain events. A prestigious Dutch Commander stepped ashore in the 1600s on a mission to establish a provisioning station for ships from the Dutch East India Company; that would be sailing around southern Africa. Well fortunately enough for us, Jan van Riebeeck saw the potential for grape growing. For the next two days, we will embark on the journey to discover these prestigious wine estates, taste, and explore more on the properties.

Starting off with the Durbanville Hills winery. Here is a little bit of information for your perusal about the estate. Wine has been made in the Durbanville area since the end of the 17th century but it wasn’t until the late 1990s when Durbanville Hills Wines was established. The Durbanville Hills winery was designed and built with only one objective in mind: to make top-quality wine from top-quality grapes. White varietals are cooled quickly to release only the beneficial aromas from the skins into the juice, producing wines with consistent, as well as longer, flavor retention.

Further down on the N1 towards Paarl, a stop at the Fairview Wine Estate is the best treat you can ever do for yourself. Fairview Vineyards and Goats Cheese for a cheese and wine tasting. Here guests can purchase their favorite cheese and condiments, as well as their favorite wine from a choice of 3 ranges. From here we will do another wine tasting pairing with some top cheese produced at this award vineyard wining namely Fairview Wine Estate situated in Paarl. Be sure to get yourself one of Western Cape’s finest cheeses accompanied by a bottle or two of wine.

With our customized itinerary, you are guaranteed to visit the best wineries in the Cape; it is the home of Vineyards after all. Continue your journey of wine tasting by heading off to Franschoek’s Grande Provence Wine Tastings as it is an opportunity for guests to experience the tasting of wine varietals created from nature’s bounty in the Western Cape, a region famed for the quality of its wines. It also features unique food and wine pairing experiences that bring together the expertise of two of Grande Provence Estate’s award-winning talents. Breaking boundaries, the taste of Grande Provence offers new insights into how to match food with wine. The traditional approach of red meat and red wine, white meat, and white wine now has new ideas brought to bear on the outcome.