Explore the African Terroirs of Wine & Cheese

Cape Town, South Africa Sight-Seeing Tours

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October 2006/September 2007	US $50	US $125	Any tour per person

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Cape Town, South Africa Sight-Seeing Tours

Activity/Tour

Welcome to Cape Town, South Africa

TOUR the breathtaking Cape Fold Mountains and explore its micro-terroirs. Experience pristine nature while pairing traditional, health-promoting and hand-crafted cheeses with bountiful wines. Reminesce the 8000 years of Cheese & Wine history with your own self-styled Affineur and Sommelier host. Travel over 3 centuries of colonial heritage, while tasting AFRICA's finest cheese & wine.

INCENTIVES: MAKE YOUR CHEESE & YOUR WINE. Accompany the cheesemaker and the winemaker on hands-on cheese & wine making experiences. Build your company spirit by sharing practical culinary secrets.

HOSPITALITY: Cheese & Wine Pairing is best gastronomy. Explore the taste buds of your ancestors. Absorb essentials of food and spirit: what to look for, what to avoid. We deliver Pairing presentations to Chef schools and service the hosptality industry, where-ever it lays: hotels, guest-houses, restaurants, overland, on trains, boat cruises, abroad or at home. We offer Apéritifs, Luncheons, Dinners & Digestifs, whichever suits your fancy. Cape cheese recipes include our CAPE cheese Fondues, Raclette & Flammekuche.
SALES Combining Cheese & Wine is an age-old tradition. Get away from multinational & commoditified industries which put out undistinguishable and unnatural items. BUY from a cheese maker & a wine maker, because you understand their products best. Superimpose cheese and wine terroirs, whenever possible. SUPPORT local food producers, because bio-diversitry is quintessential to good health & great living.

Typical Day

VISIT the Cheese & Winelands of the Fairest Cape. Meet cheese & wine makers at small farms, cheeseries & vineyards. This is off-the-beaten-track edu-tainment at its best. The geography, geology, hydrology, climate, wind and history of soil make up for a multitude of micro-terroirs, where same varietals yield radically different flavours. Engage a European tradition challenged with South African innovation.

TOURS span many distinct areas within the ONLY mediterranean region on the sub-saharan continent. Succulent, award-winning cheeses & wines are discovered, their techniques explored by their makers, and paired at Lunch, in the vineyard. A health breakfast is included in full day tours. Our motto for service excellence is: Come naked, return fullfilled: everything is included. In summer take sunscreen & hat; in winter, warm clothes & boots!

ITINERARY, REGIONS VISITED, [Cheese & Wine] THEME

Tour 1
AFRICAN TERROIR
9h00-17h00 | 10h30-15h30 The Table, Stellenbosch, Franschhoek, Paarl, Wellington, Pearl's Gate & the Swartland. The mouth-watering cheeses & wines of the sub-Saharan-Africa Mediterranean Terroirs.
Full day $100 - Half day $50

Tour 2
The Point Of The Cape [Cape of Good Hope Teroirs]
9h00-17h00 | 10h30-15h30 Penninsula Terroir & Wineland within the Table Mountain National Park. Tour the unexplored Cape Point vineyards and Terroir.
Option: Cape of Good Hope.
Full day $100 - Half day $50

Tour 3
Organic Cheese & Wine
8h00-18h00 Tulbagh valley, via Baines kloof Pass: an explosion of scenery and organic Cheese & Wine. Explore organic cheese, wine & olives\oil making and pairing.
A palatal feast.
Full day $115

Tour 4
HEX RIVER VALLEY
8h00-18h00 Africa's eating grape Capital, unique cheeses & wines, visit ancient San Rock Art OR take the oldest rail ride to Joburg. Make cheese in the morning, pair cheese & wine at lunch & trail virtually untouched pre-history or rail colonial times.
Full day $125 - Overnight TBA*

Tour 5
BIOdiversity
8h00-18h00 The world's first bio-diversity wine route; Hermanus WHALES and cheese to Mission station fynbos cider to pristine Elgin. The marine world, Cape-fold mountain's easten edge, cheeses, wine, port & cider.
Full day $125 - OvernightTBA*

Tour 6
Wellbeing
8h30-17h30 | 18h30-22h00 A full day of relaxation & revitalisation at the Vineyard SPA. Indulge in our cheese & Wine Pairing lunch upon uninterupted 360 Terroir views. Full Body Cleansing & Massage, Facial, Head & Neck Healing Treatments. Exfoliation (maize meal, brush, sugar). Hot tubs. Full day $125 - EveningsTBA*

YOUR TOUR
Design your tour: 'ports', 'champagnes' or spirits, specific cheese types or wine varietals, 18 hole golf mornings, mineral hot springs, african massage. Combine with an exilarating mode of transport, like: sidecar motorbike, vintage motocar, helicopter, cruise boat, plane & train...

*TBA= prices To Be Announced. Full days: minimum 2 persons. Half days: minimum 4 persons.

CUSTOM TOUR By sidecar, vintage car, boat, helicopter, train or on Cruises: Cape Cheeses & Wines must be explored by unconventional means. Early goat milking at the farm or Cheese & Wine Pairing Sundowner Apéritif Cruises are unique experiences, but an overnight stay at an unforgettable place is priceless. Exclusive FILM shoot locations and AFRICAN HEALTH SPA treatment are delicacies...

Age range, type of group

2 persons minimum on day tours.
4 persons minimum on half-day tours.
Maximum 7 persons on one luxury van.
From 7 to 25 people on Cheese & Wine Making groups and Corporate Incentives.
Multiples of 8 persons for Cheese & Wine Pairing Presentation Lunches, Dinners at the venue of your choice.

Sleeping and meals

More than 1 day tour excludes Dinner and accomodation, which we can arrange at the location (farm, cellar, vineyard)for you.

Policies & Restrictions

No pets.
Infants, toddlers and pre-teens pay half price.
No smoking on buses.

Other Information

CHEESE & WINE MAKING INCENTIVES

Cheeses are made all year round while wine follows the seasons - harvesting, pruning , planting & training. Groups of 7 to 120.

MAKE WINE: During harvest, leave Cape Town at day-break and returns around 19h. Get viticulture essentials while getting to the vineyard; there, meet the winemaker, follow him to pick, prune, plant or train, bottle or blend. If time allows, design your own wine label. During harvest, stamp the grapes, de-stem by hand, hand-press, assist in the making of yeast, let the juices sit. Join on the Cheese & Wine Pairing Lunch, rest or swim, then walk the vineyard for clues and a broader grasp of the winemaker's life and tribulations. When not picking grapes, follow the winemaker and absorb vinicultural & blending secrets in the Cellar or engage in blind-folded Cheese & Wine pairing competitions & games.

MAKE CHEESE: Make Pecorino, Ricotta, Munster, Appenzell, Gouda or fresh cream cheeses. Use raw milk or pasteurise, fill vats, mix cultures, seperate curd and whey, mold, hang or float and sit the cheeses... Then indulge in the classic Cheese & Wine Pairing Déjeuner with self-confessed Cheese & Wine addict & host Didier, using his '7 Wonders of the Cape' cheese platter. After Lunch, complete the cheeses & learn home-making, maturation and great age-old recipes.

MAKE CHEESE & WINE Choose one day, two days & overnight combinations to suit your interests. Add nature walks and preparations of Cape Cheese Fondues, Flamekucha or Raclette for supper.

Custom programmes are designed to your particular needs. Full or half day Cheese & Wine Making workshops can easily be incorporated into existing team-building events & incentives.

Discounts Offered

Take the 4 first Tours in a row (or spaced) with a minimum of 4 persons and get the 5th Tour completely FREE.
Overnight accomodation can be arranged for any of these nights at the farm, cellar, vineyard. Dinner excluded.

Cape Town, South Africa Sight-Seeing Tours

Cape Town, South Africa Sight-Seeing Tours