Stellenbosch Wine Tour: Self-Guided GPS Audio Guide
- 4–9 hours
- Free cancellation up to 24h before
- 2 languages
- Instant confirmation
Highlights
Drive Stellenbosch yourself, with a GPS audio guide that plays automatically as you go. Your booking unlocks the whole region in the free Wine Trails app: pick your date and starting point, Stellenbosch town is the natural centre, or roll in from Cape Town or Somerset West, choose the cellar doors you want, and the app builds your personal route with turn-by-turn narration. 60 stories cover 37 cellar doors across the Annandale red wine mile, the Helshoogte Pass and the quiet Bottelary Road: as you pass Delheim you'll hear how, one afternoon in 1971, Spatz Sperling, Frans Malan of Simonsig and Neil Joubert of Spier opened their gates to visitors and invented South African wine tourism. No group, no schedule, no guide, pause for a long tasting, replay anything, and the audio keeps working when the signal drops over the mountain passes. You'll need a car and a designated driver; tastings are booked and paid directly with the wineries. Works with Apple CarPlay and Android Auto!
Inclusions
What's included
- Email and in-app chat support
- Cellar-door narration for Rust en Vrede, Thelema, Tokara and Beyerskloof
- Regional chapters on Simon van der Stel, Cape Dutch heritage and the birth of Pinotage
- Complete offline download - audio, maps and route stored on your phone
- Buy once, no expiry, with free content and audio updates for life
- Trip planner to build and reorder your own route
- GPS audio tour of Stellenbosch with stories playing automatically at each stop
- One purchase covers everyone in the vehicle
- In-app map with every estate, pass and viewpoint pinned
What's not
- Wine tastings and cellar-door tasting fees (paid directly at each estate)
- Food, meals and snacks
- Transport - you drive your own car or rental vehicle
- Fuel, parking and road tolls
- Mobile data or wifi to download the tour before you set out
Itinerary
Oak-lined Dorp Street and Cape Dutch gables, shaded by trees descended from Simon van der Stel's 1690s plantings.
Founded in 1694 on Annandale Road, an anchor of Stellenbosch's red wine mile.
The golfer's own Annandale Road estate, built around Bordeaux-style reds.
High on the Helderberg above Annandale Road, celebrated for award-winning Chardonnay.
Cellar door on Upper Blaauwklippen Road in the Helderberg foothills.
On the Helshoogte Road, where Gyles Webb left accounting behind to become one of South African wine's defining figures.
Sitting right at the crest of the Helshoogte Pass, with views back over the Stellenbosch valley.
Over the pass in the Banghoek Valley on Banghoek Road, one of the most beautiful wine valleys in the Cape.
Knorhoek Road estate on the Simonsberg's lower slopes, whose Spatz Sperling co-founded South Africa's first wine route in 1971.
Named for the Simonsberg, and the estate where Frans Malan pioneered Methode Cap Classique sparkling wine.
On the R304 at Koelenhof, the farm Beyers Truter bought in 1988 and turned into the world's best-known Pinotage producer.
The estate that released the first commercially bottled Pinotage in 1959.
Cancellation
Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the experience starts, for a full refund.
Know before you go
- Meeting point
- These are self-guided wine tours, so these are just where a user can drive in from. The user can start from wherever they are at.
- Pickup
- Everyone meets at the starting point; there is no pickup.
- Ticket type
- Mobile or paper ticket accepted
- Operated by
- Wine Trails
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Service animals allowed
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- By giving your phone number you agree to receive up to 2 texts from Wine Trails about this booking (your tour link and a tour-day reminder)
- Msg & data rates may apply. Msg frequency: max 2 texts per booking. Reply STOP to opt out, HELP for help
- Before you travel: download the free Wine Trails app (iOS or Android) and create your account while you are on wifi
- Unlock your region in the app: tap Redeem a booking or code, choose Booked online, then enter your Viator booking reference (starts with BR-) and the last name on the booking
- Download your tour over wifi before you drive: coverage in wine country is patchy and the offline download keeps the narration playing
How it compares in Stellenbosch
- Its from-price is 87% below the median of the 69 day trips we list in Stellenbosch.
- Its length is typical for the group.
- The operator lists free cancellation on it.
About Stellenbosch
Stellenbosch, in the Western Cape, is a university town of oak-lined streets and Cape Dutch buildings, at the centre of South Africa's wine country.
Stellenbosch is the second-oldest European settlement in South Africa, founded in 1679 by Simon van der Stel, then governor of the Cape, who named it partly after himself. Its oak-shaded streets are lined with whitewashed Cape Dutch houses, and Dorp Street has some of the best preserved. The university gives the town a youthful air, while the Village Museum has restored houses from different periods.
Top-ranked sights in Stellenbosch: Delaire Graff Estate, Spier Wine Farm, Waterford Estate.
Special offers in Stellenbosch
Was/now prices come from the operator, never from us.
