Eight wine farms you simply must visit when exploring the Wellington Wine Route. Navigating a region unexplored is both exciting and daunting. Where do you start? How do you know where to visit? Luckily Visit Wellington Tourism helped me out with a rather great itinerary which I would like to share with you! If you…
I met up with the winemaker Anton Smal and MD, Dannie who filled me in on some history of the estate.Bramon (named after the children of the founders of the wine estate, Braam and Amon) are the pioneers for successfully farming vineyards in the Plettenberg Bay area with the cellar established in 2010. Today there…
Every year, during the first weekend of March, the Robertson Wine Valley hosts the Hands on Harvest Festival. Each winery welcomes guests to partake in wine harvest festivities which is definitely not limited to harvests alone. Expect lots of wine and food too! Here’s my experience and recommendation when navigating the Robertson Wine Valley Hands…
It seems that most wineries in the Plettenberg Bay Winelands have a great backstory of family discovering new lives. Sue and Doug Lund of Newstead Lund Family Vineyards were once from families farming sugar and dairy in KwaZulu-Natal who gave it up to farm vineyards in Plettenberg Bay. The Newstead crest combines two family crests – the…
Just over an hours drive from Cape Town, lies the coastal town of Hermanus and more importantly, the wine region of Walker Bay. Now, what’s interesting on this journey is that I learned that there are actually three wine wards in this cool-climate area called… Hemel-en-Aarde Valley, Upper Hemel-en Aarde Valley Hemel-en-Aarde Ridge They are…
Within close proximity to Kay and Monty Vineyards, Lodestone was founded with a lovely back story of husband and wife, Jon and Ingrid Tonkin, who had been holidaying in Plettenberg Bay every year since 1983. They purchased this Plettenberg Bay Winelands estate in 2012 and with much hard work and nurturing, the land was transformed to produce…