Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
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Service animals allowed
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Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Cancellation policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
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For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the experience’s start time.
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Cut-off times are based on the experience’s local time.
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If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.
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This experience requires a minimum number of travelers. If it’s canceled because the minimum isn’t met, you’ll be offered a different date/experience or a full refund.
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Any changes made less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time will not be accepted.
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Drive Stellenbosch yourself, with a GPS audio guide that plays automatically as you go. Your booking unlocks the whole region in the free Wine Trails app: pick your date and starting point — Stellenbosch town is the natural centre, or roll in from Cape Town or Somerset West — choose the cellar doors you want, and the app builds your personal route with turn-by-turn narration. 60 stories cover 37 cellar doors across the Annandale red wine mile, the Helshoogte Pass and the quiet Bottelary Road: as you pass Delheim you'll hear how, one afternoon in 1971, Spatz Sperling, Frans Malan of Simonsig and Neil Joubert of Spier opened their gates to visitors and invented South African wine tourism. No g...
Highlights
From 4 hours to 9 hours
Offered in English
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
From 4 hours to 9 hours
Offered in English
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
What's Included
Email and in-app chat support
Cellar-door narration for Rust en Vrede, Thelema, Tokara and Beyerskloof
Regional chapters on Simon van der Stel, Cape Dutch heritage and the birth of Pinotage
Complete offline download - audio, maps and route stored on your phone
Buy once, no expiry, with free content and audio updates for life
Trip planner to build and reorder your own route
GPS audio tour of Stellenbosch with stories playing automatically at each stop
One purchase covers everyone in the vehicle
In-app map with every estate, pass and viewpoint pinned
Wine tastings and cellar-door tasting fees (paid directly at each estate)
Food, meals and snacks
Transport - you drive your own car or rental vehicle
Fuel, parking and road tolls
Mobile data or wifi to download the tour before you set out
Meeting Points
Departure
Cape Town Central
These are self-guided wine tours, so these are just where a user can drive in from. The user can start from wherever they are at.
Drive Stellenbosch yourself, with a GPS audio guide that plays automatically as you go. Your booking unlocks the whole region in the free Wine Trails app: pick your date and starting point — Stellenbosch town is the natural centre, or roll in from Cape Town or Somerset West — choose the cellar doors you want, and the app builds your personal route with turn-by-turn narration. 60 stories cover 37 cellar doors across the Annandale red wine mile, the Helshoogte Pass and the quiet Bottelary Road: as you pass Delheim you'll hear how, one afternoon in 1971, Spatz Sperling, Frans Malan of Simonsig and Neil Joubert of Spier opened their gates to visitors and invented South African wine tourism. No g...
Highlights
From 4 hours to 9 hours
Offered in English
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
From 4 hours to 9 hours
Offered in English
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
What's Included
Email and in-app chat support
Cellar-door narration for Rust en Vrede, Thelema, Tokara and Beyerskloof
Regional chapters on Simon van der Stel, Cape Dutch heritage and the birth of Pinotage
Complete offline download - audio, maps and route stored on your phone
Buy once, no expiry, with free content and audio updates for life
Trip planner to build and reorder your own route
GPS audio tour of Stellenbosch with stories playing automatically at each stop
One purchase covers everyone in the vehicle
In-app map with every estate, pass and viewpoint pinned
Wine tastings and cellar-door tasting fees (paid directly at each estate)
Food, meals and snacks
Transport - you drive your own car or rental vehicle
Fuel, parking and road tolls
Mobile data or wifi to download the tour before you set out
Meeting Points
Departure
Cape Town Central
These are self-guided wine tours, so these are just where a user can drive in from. The user can start from wherever they are at.
Return
Itinerary
1
Stellenbosch
Oak-lined Dorp Street and Cape Dutch gables, shaded by trees descended from Simon van der Stel's 1690s plantings.
30 minutes
2
Rust en Vrede Tasting Room
Founded in 1694 on Annandale Road, an anchor of Stellenbosch's red wine mile.
30 minutes
3
Ernie Els Wines
The golfer's own Annandale Road estate, built around Bordeaux-style reds.
30 minutes
4
Uva Mira Mountain Vineyards
High on the Helderberg above Annandale Road, celebrated for award-winning Chardonnay.
30 minutes
5
Waterford Estate
Cellar door on Upper Blaauwklippen Road in the Helderberg foothills.
30 minutes
6
Thelema Mountain Vineyards
On the Helshoogte Road, where Gyles Webb left accounting behind to become one of South African wine's defining figures.
30 minutes
7
Tokara Wine Estate
Sitting right at the crest of the Helshoogte Pass, with views back over the Stellenbosch valley.
30 minutes
8
Oldenburg Vineyards
Over the pass in the Banghoek Valley on Banghoek Road, one of the most beautiful wine valleys in the Cape.
30 minutes
9
Lourensford Wine Estate
Knorhoek Road estate on the Simonsberg's lower slopes, whose Spatz Sperling co-founded South Africa's first wine route in 1971.
30 minutes
10
Lourensford Wine Estate
Named for the Simonsberg, and the estate where Frans Malan pioneered Methode Cap Classique sparkling wine.
30 minutes
11
Beyerskloof Tasting Room
On the R304 at Koelenhof, the farm Beyers Truter bought in 1988 and turned into the world's best-known Pinotage producer.
30 minutes
12
Lanzerac Wine Estate
The estate that released the first commercially bottled Pinotage in 1959.
