Curated Wine Days

Wine in the Cape runs curated wine estate tours near Cape Town: a hand-picked itinerary of Cape Winelands estates, or your own choice of cellars, with private door-to-door transfers between every stop and tastings and lunch requested with each estate on your behalf. You are not sharing a bus with strangers and you are not booking a single estate yourself — the route, the timings and the estate bookings are handled by Wine in the Cape, rated 5.0 out of 5 from 6 Google reviews.

The closest cellar doors are in Constantia, 10 to 17 km from central Cape Town: Beau Constantia (10 km), Groot Constantia (12 km), Klein Constantia (13 km) and Steenberg (17 km). Durbanville is 17 to 22 km out (De Grendel, Bloemendal, Durbanville Hills); Stellenbosch is 28 to 48 km (Zevenwacht, Cavalli, Vergelegen); Paarl is around 47 to 58 km (Babylonstoren, Fairview, Nederburg) and Franschhoek 50 to 62 km (Boschendal, La Motte, Rickety Bridge). Any of them can be built into a curated day.

The Group Wine Tour curated day is sold by the seat at R1,500 per person and can be booked online. Other curated days are quoted for your group and your date, and a fully private day with a guide starts at R2,500 per person for a group of seven (R3,300 each for four, R5,500 each for two, R8,600 for one guest). Tasting fees and lunch are settled at the estates unless your quote lists them as included, and there is no deposit to enquire.

On a Curated Wine Day you travel in your own private transfer between stops, with the day plan, estate information and tasting recommendations in one app, and one tap brings the car to the door when you are ready to move on. A private wine tour adds a guide who stays with you all day and shapes the route live. Both are just your party — the difference is whether the guide travels with you or the day runs from your itinerary.

No. Every curated day includes private door-to-door transfers between stops, starting with collection at your Cape Town hotel, guest house or apartment, so nobody in your group has to drive or stay sober to do it. Collection times are set on your itinerary, and the car is called from the app when you are finished at an estate.

Wine in the Cape requests the tastings, lunch bookings and table preferences with each estate on your behalf, and the estate bills you for them unless your itinerary says they are included. Requests are made as early as possible but cannot be guaranteed, especially on busy days or at short notice — the earlier you book, the better the estate can accommodate your table.

Yes. For more than one day, Wine in the Cape plans the estates and the accommodation together: the accommodation trip planner puts wine estates and places to stay on one map so a multi-day route — Constantia, Stellenbosch, Franschhoek and Paarl — can be laid out and quoted as one itinerary.

Choose an itinerary at wineinthecape.co.za/self-guided-tours, or message Wine in the Cape on WhatsApp or call +27 60 013 3345, or email hello@wineinthecape.co.za. The office is at 183 Main Street, Hoog en Droog, Paarl, 7646, and is open Monday to Friday 08:00–18:00 and Saturday and Sunday 09:00–17:00 (SAST, GMT+2).