MANY WHO love South African wine have dreamed about but never managed to arrange a stayover in the Eastern Cape town of Graaff-Reinet (or Nieu Bethesda) for the annual ‘Stoep Tasting’. It’s become so popular, with tickets selling out and accommodation booked up weeks in advance… so in demand that this year the organisers have doubled up and there are
Read moreIT’S UNIQUE. Over a long weekend in May every year throughout the small towns of Graaff-Reinet and Nieu Bathesda in South Africa’s Great Karoo, thousands of wine lovers arrive from far and wide to meander among the houses, wandering from veranda to veranda – or stoep to stoep, as they say in Afrikaans. Every hotel, guesthouse and BnB is fully
Read moreCONSTANTIA Fresh dinners rather than a bash on the lawn. A Chenin Blanc picnic in Stellenbosch instead of a party on the beach in Cape Town. Then some belated tastings of 2020 Veritas award winners, the first of them to take place in Paarl. But there’s more! A different kind of sparkling wine festival in Franschhoek, food and wine affairs
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