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Drive Stellenbosch yourself, with a GPS audio guide that plays automatically as you go. Your booking unlocks the whole region in the free Wine Trails app: pick your date and starting point — Stellenbosch town is the natural centre, or roll in from Cape Town or Somerset West — choose the cellar doors you want, and the app builds your personal route with turn-by-turn narration. 60 stories cover 37 cellar doors across the Annandale red wine mile, the Helshoogte Pass and the quiet Bottelary Road: as you pass Delheim you'll hear how, one afternoon in 1971, Spatz Sperling, Frans Malan of Simonsig and Neil Joubert of Spier opened their gates to visitors and invented South African wine tourism. No group, no schedule, no guide — pause for a long tasting, replay anything, and the audio keeps working when the signal drops over the mountain passes. You'll need a car and a designated driver; tastings are booked and paid directly with the wineries.
What's Included
Meeting and pickup
Itinerary
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1Stellenbosch
Oak-lined Dorp Street and Cape Dutch gables, shaded by trees descended from Simon van der Stel's 1690s plantings.
30 minutes • Admission ticket free -
2Rust en Vrede Tasting Room
Founded in 1694 on Annandale Road, an anchor of Stellenbosch's red wine mile.
30 minutes • Admission ticket free -
3Ernie Els Wines
The golfer's own Annandale Road estate, built around Bordeaux-style reds.
30 minutes • Admission ticket free -
4Uva Mira Mountain Vineyards
High on the Helderberg above Annandale Road, celebrated for award-winning Chardonnay.
30 minutes • Admission ticket free -
5Waterford Estate
Cellar door on Upper Blaauwklippen Road in the Helderberg foothills.
30 minutes • Admission ticket free -
6Thelema Mountain Vineyards
On the Helshoogte Road, where Gyles Webb left accounting behind to become one of South African wine's defining figures.
30 minutes • Admission ticket free -
7Tokara Wine Estate
Sitting right at the crest of the Helshoogte Pass, with views back over the Stellenbosch valley.
30 minutes • Admission ticket free -
8Oldenburg Vineyards
Over the pass in the Banghoek Valley on Banghoek Road, one of the most beautiful wine valleys in the Cape.
30 minutes • Admission ticket free -
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Knorhoek Road estate on the Simonsberg's lower slopes, whose Spatz Sperling co-founded South Africa's first wine route in 1971.
30 minutes • Admission ticket free -
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Named for the Simonsberg, and the estate where Frans Malan pioneered Methode Cap Classique sparkling wine.
30 minutes • Admission ticket free -
11
On the R304 at Koelenhof, the farm Beyers Truter bought in 1988 and turned into the world's best-known Pinotage producer.
30 minutes • Admission ticket free -
12Lanzerac Wine Estate
The estate that released the first commercially bottled Pinotage in 1959.
30 minutes • Admission ticket free
Additional info
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Service animals allowed
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
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Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Cancellation Policy
- For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the experience’s start time.
- If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.
- Any changes made less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time will not be accepted.
You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.
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