Wine Tour South Africa

Cape Town is located near the wineyards of Western Cape and one of the most beautiful cities in South Africa with beautiful nature such as the Table Mountain, the Cape of Good Hope, Boulders Beach and much more. Combine your wine tour with a few days on a safari in one of the wildlife parks and ride the Garden Route with all those white sand beaches. In short, during a wine tour to South Africa, you will not get bored, that for sure.

The history of wine in South Africa goes back to the time when the Dutch East India Company set foot in Cape Town on the way to the east in 1652 and 7 years later the first harvest took place. Until apartheid, South African wines developed rapidly but all this came to a halt with the boycott of South Africa and its wines until the 1990s. Since then, South African wine has been on the rise again, and with good right.

The Western Cape not only produces delicious red and white wines, you can also find delicious sparkling wine and fortified wines. The most common grape varieties are Chenin Blanc, Cabarnet Sauvignon, the Colombard, and the Shiraz, each with more than ten percent of the production quantity. Other grape varieties are the famous Sauvignon Blanc, Chardonnay, Pinotage, and Merlot. Less common varieties are Cape Riesling, Gewürztraminer, Hanepoot, and Sémillon.

When are the South African wine regions best to visit?

Seasons in South Africa are reversed from what we know in the northern hemisphere. When it is winter in the US or UK, it’s summer in South Africa. Due to climate change, the seasons are disregulated and exceptional long periods of drought may occur. What exactly is the best time to go depends on the activities that you wish to do during your wine tour.

If you also want to do a number of safaris during your wine tour and want to photograph many animals for instance, then it is better to come during the dry season when many animals come to the waterholes to drink. You will then mostly see yellow and dry grass landscapes. If you want green landscapes in a contrary, then it is best to come during the rainy season, but the animals are harder to see. On the other hand, when you want to see whales, winter and spring are the best.

If you only come for wine tastings, then the whole year is suitable for visiting the beautiful wineries. Because of climate change and periods of drought, it is not possible to say exactly which season is the best. Sometimes it rains for a few days, then it’s over again, while hereafter it won’t rain for a month. It is therefore difficult to predict.

Whatever period of the year you wish to go on a wine tour to South Africa, ask us about the possibilities and the latest developments. Although we cannot predict the weather, we are happy to help you plan a great wine tour to South Africa and advise you which are the best wineries to visit as well as find the best accommodation whatever budget you might have.

The Western Cape not only has beautiful bed & breakfasts and cottages where you can spend the night among the vineyards, the vineyards around Cape Town are also home to beautiful authentic wine farms that can still be seen in full authentic style. At Wineroundtrips.com we offer you all possible accommodation from delightful cottage and bed & breakfast to lodge or luxury hotel with wellness facilities and your own private swimming pool surrounded by beautiful landscapes. You can say it.