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By Wine Trails
Free cancellation available
Price is AU$35 per traveller* *Get a lower price by selecting multiple travellers

Features

  • Free cancellation available
  • 9h
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation

Overview

  • 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 group, no schedule, no guide — pause for a long tasting, replay anything, and the audio keeps working when the signal drops over the mountain passes. You'll need a car and a designated driver; tastings are booked and paid directly with the wineries.

Activity location

  • Stellenbosch
    • Stellenbosch, South Africa

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Cape Town Central
    • Cape Town Central, South Africa

Multiple meeting/redemption points available, see location information for full list

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Stellenbosch Wine Tour: Self-Guided GPS Audio Guide

  • Activity duration is 9 hours9h
    9h
  • English
Language options: English
Starting time: 9:00 AM
Price details
AU$34.69 x 1 TravellerAU$34.69
Total
Price is AU$34.69

What's included, what's not

  • Inclusions
    Email and in-app chat support
  • Inclusions
    Cellar-door narration for Rust en Vrede, Thelema, Tokara and Beyerskloof
  • Inclusions
    Regional chapters on Simon van der Stel, Cape Dutch heritage and the birth of Pinotage
  • Inclusions
    Complete offline download - audio, maps and route stored on your phone
  • Inclusions
    Buy once, no expiry, with free content and audio updates for life
  • Inclusions
    Trip planner to build and reorder your own route
  • Inclusions
    GPS audio tour of Stellenbosch with stories playing automatically at each stop
  • Inclusions
    One purchase covers everyone in the vehicle
  • Inclusions
    In-app map with every estate, pass and viewpoint pinned
  • Exclusions
    Wine tastings and cellar-door tasting fees (paid directly at each estate)
  • Exclusions
    Food, meals and snacks
  • Exclusions
    Transport - you drive your own car or rental vehicle
  • Exclusions
    Fuel, parking and road tolls
  • Exclusions
    Mobile data or wifi to download the tour before you set out

Know before you book

    • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
    • Service animals allowed
    • Suitable for all physical fitness levels

Activity itinerary

Stellenbosch

  • 30m
Oak-lined Dorp Street and Cape Dutch gables, shaded by trees descended from Simon van der Stel's 1690s plantings.

Rust en Vrede Tasting Room

  • 30m
Founded in 1694 on Annandale Road, an anchor of Stellenbosch's red wine mile.

Ernie Els Wines

  • 30m
The golfer's own Annandale Road estate, built around Bordeaux-style reds.

Uva Mira Mountain Vineyards

  • 30m
High on the Helderberg above Annandale Road, celebrated for award-winning Chardonnay.

Waterford Estate

  • 30m
Cellar door on Upper Blaauwklippen Road in the Helderberg foothills.

Thelema Mountain Vineyards

  • 30m
On the Helshoogte Road, where Gyles Webb left accounting behind to become one of South African wine's defining figures.

Tokara Wine Estate

  • 30m
Sitting right at the crest of the Helshoogte Pass, with views back over the Stellenbosch valley.

Oldenburg Vineyards

  • 30m
Over the pass in the Banghoek Valley on Banghoek Road, one of the most beautiful wine valleys in the Cape.

Lourensford Wine Estate

  • 30m
Knorhoek Road estate on the Simonsberg's lower slopes, whose Spatz Sperling co-founded South Africa's first wine route in 1971.

Lourensford Wine Estate

  • 30m
Named for the Simonsberg, and the estate where Frans Malan pioneered Methode Cap Classique sparkling wine.

Beyerskloof Tasting Room

  • 30m
On the R304 at Koelenhof, the farm Beyers Truter bought in 1988 and turned into the world's best-known Pinotage producer.

Lanzerac Wine Estate

  • 30m
The estate that released the first commercially bottled Pinotage in 1959.

Location

Activity location

  • LOB_ACTIVITIESLOB_ACTIVITIES
    Stellenbosch
    • Stellenbosch, South Africa

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • PEOPLEPEOPLE
    Cape Town Central
    • Cape Town Central, South Africa
  • PEOPLEPEOPLE
    Stellenbosch Farms
    • Stellenbosch Farms, South Africa
  • PEOPLEPEOPLE
    Somerset West
    • Somerset West, South Africa

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