Its wines are another thing South Africa’s cape region is famous for; so I had to include a wine day tour in my itinerary.

I was picked up in the morning by the tour company – and in a small group (just four plus tour leader) we made it into wine country, with the first tasting already well before 10:00 at the Fairview Wine Estate … the tasting included both wine and goat cheese, which made a nice combination 😉

From here we continued to Stellenbosch and after a short tour around town, we stopped at another winery to try more wine … and to realize how well biltong (South African cured meat) combines with red wine.

Our next stop was at the Blauwklippen winery and its Sunday market, where we had lunch and time to look around the market – before we finally went for another tasting. The next and final winery – after a short stop at a strawberry farm – was the one owned by sock producer Peter Falke – and clearly showed that producing high quality socks and high quality wine is not a conflict – this time wine was accompanied by chocolate.

All in all a very enjoyable (and intoxicating) day with plenty of insight into South African wine making.