AAT Wine Tasting Tours use a Stellenbosch based tour operator with more than 14 years’ experience and an excellent wine tasting tour track record. We pride ourselves on providing a budget priced wine tasting tour yet delivering a 5 star wine tasting tour of the wine lands around Stellenbosch. Daily wine tasting tour departs at around 10:30am from Stellenbosch returning around 17:00pm. (Sundays included).
Our Wine Tasting Tour Mission
To deliver a fantastic wine tasting day out in the wine lands at budget wine tasting tour prices.
Africa Adventure Tours only use the best companies with the most experience in wine tasting tours. Our wine tasting tour delivers, the client has a great fun day out in the wine lands, plenty of picture opportunities of wine farms, great wine tasting and a great wine farm restaurant lunch are all included in the price of the wine tasting tour. The wine tasting tour will run for only 2 people if need be.
⇔What’s included?
Africa Adventure Tours provide a tour that encompasses the Stellenbosch, Paarl and Franschhoek region. Entrance fees, 4 wine tastings/wine farms and lunch are included in the wine tour price.
⇔Africa Adventure Tours Wine Tasting
This tour departs at 10:30am. Pick up at your accommodation in Stellenbosch or by arrangement. (We have a special deal for people staying in Cape Town)
⇔First Stop:Here we do a cellar tour where the winemaking process is revealed and a brief wine tasting method demonstrated. We sample the wines produced by this estate. Simonsig Wine FarmSince French Huguenot Jacques Malan first set foot in the Cape Wine lands in 1688, the Malan family of Simonsig, one of South Africa's most reputable wine producers, has leaped to acclaimed heights in pioneering wine excellence. Endowed with quintessential terrier, progressive winemaking skills and a proud heritage, the three Malan brothers uphold a passionate commitment towards quality and innovation.
The hallmark of the Simonsig portfolio.
A legendary landmark in its own right, Simonsig continues to reap rewards for its extensive range of formidable red, white and sparkling wines, as the Malan family winemaking legacy lives on, crafted by family tradition, and enjoyed by connoisseur and novice alike.
⇔Second Stop:We move onwards towards Paarl - en route a taste of delicious goat’s milk cheese. Fairview Wine EstateThe home of Fairview wines is a 300ha farm on the south-west-facing slopes of Paarl Mountain, a granite rock outcrop in the heart of the Paarl wine district, viticulturally among the most historic and influential areas of the Cape wine lands. Standing among the lavender beds in the terraced front garden of the winery, you'll look out across rolling fields and see distant flat-topped Table Mountain, a world-famous landmark standing guard over the city of Cape Town, South Africa's tourist mecca perched on the Cape Peninsula at the southern tip of the African continent.
Winemaking on the farm can be traced back to 1699, not quite a half-century after the first European settlers arrived in southern Africa. But its wines entered the modern era with the first bottling under the Fairview label in 1974 by the Back family, owners since 1937. Today, some three decades later, grandson Charles Back II has brought Fairview wines to world markets. One of South Africa's pre-eminent vintners, he has earned Fairview a reputation for consistent quality across a range of innovative styles, using both classic and unusual varieties. And he has helped pioneer a modern culture of wine growing in South Africa that embraces typicity of terrier, unrestricted by ?estate? Appellation, by both developing his own vineyards to their full potential and seeking out new viticulture sites to grow fruit for wines to please popular tastes and discerning palates.
⇔Third Stop: Lunch in Franschhoek. Lunch is included in the price and also caters for vegetarians. A glass of wine or a beer is included but any extra imbibing is for your own account.
⇔Fourth Stop:The gift of perfect conditions. Dieu Donneis situated high on the steep southwest facing slopes of the Franschhoek Mountains. Here the sun is pempered, ensuring slow ripening of our grapes. And thanks to cool summer conditions and Dieu Donne's unique soil strata of Hutton and Clovelly from weathered granite with a rocky top soil, found only in this corner of the Valley, the vines do not show excessive vigour, nor do they over-produce. This exceptional terroir gives Dieu Donne wines their special character.
Dieu Donne grows two thirds red and one third white grapes. The cellar produces 16 500 cases per year, of which nearly half is exported to countries around the globe.
⇔Fifth Stop:Boschendal Wine Estateis the last farm for the day then homewards to Stellenbosch. Nestled in one of the most picturesque valleys in the Cape wine lands, one of South Africa’s original wine farms eagerly awaits your arrival. With a winemaking tradition spanning over 300 years, Boschendal Wine Estate offers a veritable treat for wine lovers everywhere. This gracious national treasure is a familiar favourite to many and a glorious discovery for countless others.
Return to Stellenbosch at approximately 17:00pm, well fed - well informed and who knows maybe well happy! We are members of the Stellenbosch Tourism Association and Backpacking South Africa. The tours are conducted by a registered tour guide. All guides have the required legal qualifications. Tour vehicles are Toyota Quantum 13 seater mini vans. Air conditioned and seatbelts for each seat.
**** Farms are subject to change depending on wine availability, time of year, how busy the farm is and other unforeseen circumstances ****
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