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.

Richard Holt, resident wine guru of Travel Concepts reports on his wine recommendation for the month,
“On Sunday evening with friends, we drank my very last bottle of 2004 Vruchtbaar Cabernet Sauvignon and I finally realised what I had known all along; that this wine is one of my very favourite Cabernet Sauvignons.
From a small boutique [...]

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This wine is found in many peoples wine collections in the Cape. It really is excellent and the Rickety Bridge estate in Franschhoek is a must visit whilst in the area. An historic estate, nestled at the foot of the mountains the “wine tasting by horseback tour” usually stops here for lunch. Well worth watching [...]

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We celebrated Christmas with a bottle of De Trafford 2005 ELEVATION “393″, a stunning red blend of Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Shiraz. De Trafford Winery is a small boutique estate situated on the beautiful Mont Fleur farm set at the top of a dramatic valley above Stellenbosch. The winery takes some finding up a long [...]

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