We made the best use of last week’s public holiday and made a long weekend out of it. We flew down to Cape Town to visit friends and family. We’ll usually plan a few things that we’d like to do or see when we visit the Cape but Wine-farm-hopping goes without saying! This time was no exception.
What I liked most about our recent little wine tour is that we visited some of the lesser known farms - some on purpose and some by luck!
If I want to write about all the wines and all the farms we visited it would simply be too long for 1 post. So I’m going to tackle them 1 day at a time.
Our first day out was in Stellenbosch joined by family members Piet, Lan and Divan. We visited Rust & Vrede and Eaglevlei
Rust & Vrede
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| The Rust & Vrede restaurant |
I’ve never been to Rust & Vrede and was almost more excited to see the award winning restaurant than to taste the wines. It was ranked the 61st best restaurant in the world in this year’s S.Pellegrino world’s best list. I unfortunately didn’t get to taste anything since they only serve dinner (which I’m almost sure will be on pre-booking only) and we had a very busy little boy in our midst which wouldn’t have worked well in a classy restaurant like Rust & Vrede’s.
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| The D-man |
I had a look at the menu though… mouthwatering as it seems this is definitely a blow-the-budget type of restaurant but I’m sure it’s worth every cent! The same goes for the wines – very expensive and very exclusive but you can taste the sophistication.
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| These bad boys sells for R700 each |
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| a romantic dinner in the cellar's corner? |
Eaglevlei
I just couldn’t help asking them “What’s up with the English-Afrikaans name?” Apparently the owner is English and he married an Afrikaans wife and that’s where the idea came from. I think it’s a bit silly but hey, if you have the bucks to buy a wine farm I guess you can name it whatever silly name you want to.
We also had lunch here. It’s the perfect place to come to if you have little ones because while you can enjoy the wine tasting there is a HUGE jungle gym outside for them to play on.
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| The tasting room |
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| This is how you jazz up a burger |
Their wines are really well-priced for the quality and taste. They range between R50 and R80 and I ended up buying their Viognier, Cab, Pinotage and Shiraz. It was easier than to choose between them…
Off to a good start, day 2 to follow...
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