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The Cape Winelands and a proud food culture — historic estates, the wine tram and the ritual of the braai.
Wine & FoodWestern CapeBabylonstoren
A 1692 Cape Dutch farm between Paarl and Franschhoek whose owners planted a three-and-a-half-hectare garden in which every single plant is edible or medicinal.
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Wine & FoodWestern CapeBoschendal
Title deeds dated 1685, a gable that still carries the initials of the couple who raised it in 1812, and a national heritage site at the heart of a roughly 1,800-hectare working farm.
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Wine & FoodWestern CapeFairview
A Paarl farm called Cauliflower Fountain in 1693, now better known for a two-storey tower its goats climb and a Rhône-baiting wine that made the French reach for their lawyers.
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Wine & FoodWestern CapeFranschhoek
A French Huguenot refuge cupped in a mountain-ringed valley, where Cape Dutch wine estates and a hop-on tram trade on more than three centuries of the vine.
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Wine & FoodWestern CapeGroot Constantia
South Africa's oldest wine estate, pressing grapes without pause since 1685 — and the source of a sweet Constantia wine once said to have eased Napoleon's exile.
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Wine & FoodWestern CapePaarl
Beneath three granite domes that glisten like pearls after rain, Paarl pours storied Cape wines in the shadow of a monument built to a language.
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Wine & FoodWestern CapeSpier
A 1692 Stellenbosch farm that keeps its wine in what it describes as the country's oldest dated cellar — and hangs a thousand contemporary South African artworks across its barns, lawns and hotel corridors.
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Wine & FoodWestern CapeStellenbosch
Oak-lined streets, Cape Dutch gables and one of South Africa's oldest wine routes.
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Wine & FoodWestern CapeVergelegen
Granted to a governor on 1 February 1700 and taken away from him seven years later — and the five camphor trees he planted at the gate were declared national monuments in 1942.
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