This is the place where you can find informed and inspiring choices of where to WINE, DINE, STAY and PLAY whilst you are on holiday in Southern Africa with us. Constantly updated - and with regular "real life" comments from our travellers - each section simply lists some of the favourite things we love doing in our City of Cape Town and as we travel OUT & ABOUT across Southern Africa and beyond.
We hope you feel inspired to try some of our choices and we would like to hear your thoughts and comments if you do.

On arrival in Cape Town so many of our international clients inevitably head for the Winelands and are particularly drawn to the town of Stellenbosch.
It’s a name recognised the world over as synonymous with South Africa’s wine industry. Stunningly beautiful it’s an area rich in heritage and culture and has South Africa’s oldest wine route. [...]

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With the recent annual publication of South Africa’s wine bible, “The Platters Guide” which lists and ranks every bottle of our wine, local food and wine bloggers are currently in an online frenzy, agreeing or disagreeing and eulogizing about their own particular favourites.  So I thought for what it’s worth I’m going to share my [...]

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When our Shiraz loving MD Richard Holt wants to stock up on some of his favourite tipple, one of the first places he heads for is the historic Hartenberg Wine Estate, which is situated on the outskirts of Stellenbosch.

Not only is it South Africa’s oldest producer of Shiraz, but according to Richard one of the [...]

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Last week we featured a post where we asked various Cape Town personalities and industry colleagues in “the know”, if they were stopped in the street and asked by a tourist to recommend just one wine estate to visit whilst they were in Cape Town, which one would it be and why?
Today we continue [...]

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We know that our many visitors to Cape Town want to taste some of the regions famous wines during their stay, but with so many other attractions to fit in and over 500 different wineries to try there is often little time to really get to grips with some of the best wine [...]

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We know that our many visitors to Cape Town want to taste some of our great wines during their visit, but with so many other attractions to fit in and so many different wine estates to try there is often little time to really get to grips with the regions finest. I [...]

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Richard Holt – our inhouse wine fanatic/fundi and Travel Concepts Director recently visited Constantia Glen wine estate. This is what went down – according to him!
The Constantia Valley, just 20 minutes south of Cape Town is famous for its colonial history, its beauty, style and affluence. It’s a place where people enjoy the finer things [...]

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This month our MD Richard Holt and wine fanatic tells us about his recent wine tasting experience at Blonde Restaurant:
I was lucky enough recently to be invited to lunch at the new Restaurant, Blonde in Cape Town specifically to celebrate the release of the new chardonnays from the renowned Bouchard Finlayson winery in the Walker [...]

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After my shameful performance at my first Under the Influence wine tasting – see Under the influence of White Blends – it was little surprise that that Mrs. Holt took a dim view when I informed her that I would be attending the next one. But a whining “I’m really interested in the history of [...]

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For those who are keen to avoid the tourist masses and venture off the beaten track in search of a different wine tasting experience, there are some real hidden gems to be found in the winelands of the Western Cape and one of our particular favourites is the Elgin Valley.

The winelands are a major [...]

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