You start your tour above Paarl with a tour of the dark, almost subterranean cellar at Seidelberg as well as sampling some of their wines. Make sure you visit their glass studio before you leave.

Moving on, you visit Boland Kelders (Cellar in Afrikaans), one of the largest cellars in the area to taste some of their wine varieties before travelling towards Wellington where you pay a visit to Diemersfontein.

Diemersfontein has a beautiful traditional homestead set in a large garden with enormous, ancient palm trees. Here you can taste some of their delicious wines before breaking for lunch in their restaurant.

During the afternoon visit Welbedacht, owned by a former Springbok Rugby player, and Laborie in the heart of historic Paarl town.

Start you day with a tour of the impressive KWV cellar and a tasting of their various wines before moving on to the Boland Kelders, where you can taste award winning wines in their underground tasting room.

Your next stop is the elevated Seidelberg where you can enjoy a light lunch under an enormous oak tree while looking out over the Winelands towards Cape Town. On a very clear day you can even see Table Mountain from here.

After lunch visit the rose gardens and tasting rooms at Avondale before ending the tour by tasting the wines of Freedom Hill. Interestingly this estate is close to the former Victor Verster prison where Nelson Mandela spent his last days in prison before his release.

There is a wine estate and stud farm between Stellenbosch and the coast called Avontuur Estate where you start your day with a cellar tour and wine tasting before moving on to Alto on the slopes of the Helderberg Mountains. Here you taste their full bodied red wines grown on the steep slopes of the valley.

Stop for more wine tasting and lunch in the relaxed restaurant in a converted old barn at Dornier.

Spend the afternoon tasting delicious reds at Audacia and enjoying the elegance of Zevenwacht wine estate.

First port of call is a cellar tour and wine tasting at Welbedacht, the wine estate owned by a former Springbok Rugby player and situated near a pretty dam in the Wellington area of the Winelands.

Move on to Diemersfontein, famous for their coffee and chocolate pinotage, where you will be introduced to their range of wines.

Laborie is a traditional estate on the main road of Paarl, here you will be given an opportunity to taste their wines in their cool tasting room, before eating lunch on the main veranda, under the enormous oak trees.

After lunch there is more tasting at Avondale, where you can look out over their rose bushes to Cape Town in the distance before moving on to Freedom Hill, perfectly named as it is located close to the prison where Mandela took his first steps to freedom.

Commence your day with a cellar tour and wine tasting at the elegant Grande Provence in the pretty Franschhoek Valley. Also in the Franschhoek Valley, with traditional Cape Dutch architecture is La Motte, where you stop to taste their wines.

Lunch and further wine tasting is at the cultural centre of Spier, just outside the university town of Stellenbosch.

Also in the Stellenbosch area is the racing stud and wine estate of Avontuur where you can taste wine ringed by the majestic Stellenbosch mountains.

Your last stop is also the first wine estate established in the Cape, the classic Groot Constantia, where you can taste wines with a history dating back to 1685.

A wonderful opportunity to spend the day exploring three main wine regions of the Boland area.

Starting in the Stellenbosch area, you visit the cellar at Zevenwacht,where you learn the processes involved in wine making, before tasting the results.

Wine tasting at Le Bonheur, found on the slopes of the Simonsberg Mountains is next. Here you will be able to see the traditional Cape Dutch architecture of the original H-shaped homestead set in beautiful gardens.

Heading towards Paarl you stop at Backsberg Estate to taste their wines, explore their maze and stop for lunch at the casual Backsberg Restaurant which does a great lamb on the spit.

The afternoon is spent tasting wine in the Franschhoek Valley at the historic L'Ormarins and Vrede en Lust with its panoramic views of mountains and vineyards.

Start where is all began, at Groot Constantia, the first wine producing farm in South Africa. Here you will explore their historic cellar and taste their renowned wines.

Following that you travel to the heart of the wine producing district, Stellenbosch, where you visit Spier wine estate to taste their variety of wines.

Stop at Vrede en Lust just outside Paarl and taste their refreshing wines in their large modern tasting room overlooking vineyards and mountains, before having lunch in their quaint cottage restaurant.

Taste the wine at the family owned Backsberg before tasting at Uitkyk, with its light, modern tasting room with water flowing through it and its original, restored homestead.