good morning if we start our day in the small town of Frankschoek
We are Angie and Antonio we are in South Africa on the outskirts of Cape
Town and today we are going to visit the wine and gastronomic region
of Franschoek The Cape wine region is mainly made up of three cities Stellenbosch
Paarl and this time we chose Franschoek which is one hour from Cape Town.
An important part of the experience here is choosing a good hotel.
Many remain in wine estates, this time we
chose a boutique hotel located on a farm where they grow lavender.
In this area the cost-benefit ratio is excellent
and good freshening up a little, make do , came us to this brewery called Tuk Tuk
and good I'll try these beers is made here and is a Weis style is
German's great!
well I ordered a lager. Ahh Perfect is not that strong but it has body it has flavor
I loved it, it is very good!
Well, you will wonder why today, as there are more beers, we are in the wine region,
tomorrow it will be dedicated to wine tastings. With a delicious risotto we will close our first night in
the Cape Town region. Absolutely perfect the texture of the spectacular rice for a risotto
With a slightly rainy day we left to make our tour of some
of the best vineyards in the area, we chose this time because autumn and winter are
the best times to go on safaris in some of the reserves from south africa
good morning so we start our day in the small town of Franschoek, we are
very close to Cape Town. This city was founded approximately 400 years ago by the
French and well right now we are going to start our first tasting in one of the
most spectacular places where wine is made in the world this vineyard is called Holden Manz
and we are going to do our first wine tasting and this white is called shenning blanc
well the truth is that it is very early in the morning so I
was not expecting to drink wine so early because it is tasty quite
soft it has a lot of fruit flavor but it is not so sweet, I would think that it can be accompanied very
well with some cheeses . Well here we ask the Holden Manz
wine package called platinum and costs 120 rands per person amounting to $ 8,50
This wine will taste right now is a chardonnay and goes well
with oysters or fish with a sauce Lemon like something citric
a little strong is tasty but it is a little strong this had been served in the glass a
few minutes ago they put what to do it will start to get a little cold because they had it in the fridge
well I am not an expert or a fan I like wines more like beers
but the wine regions are very beautiful and here we are tasting little wines.
It's good! Health!
Fifth and last wine in our tasting and see if I remember what they
told me , that this one is also a combination of three red wines, it
has 72% cabernet savinon, 22% cabernet frank and 6% merlot
. What do you know Antonio?
We are in one of the most famous vineyards in the region, it is called Boschendal four
years ago we had been here and we had loved it but we had not tried
the restaurant so today we are going to try the food to see how it is
We are in Boschendal
Well, they made a except for us because we will do the wine tasting sitting at
the table of the restaurant that usually we do it that way but as there poquita people
will make the house and go to lunch at a time and as ordered food meat red
it But we are going to make a red wine list also the first one they served us is a Shiraz
from 2019 The Shiraz is identified above all by chocolate notes and a slightly smoky flavor
that is delicious. Health! Here we order a Ribeye style meat and we order some
ravioli stuffed with brisket which is a spectacular meat and we also order some
vegetable fries that are also accompanied by a goat cheese moose
Uff, it is spectacular! Truly one of the best meals of my life. I do not know if this restaurant has
Michelin stars but if it were up to me I would put all the spectacular excellent excellent excellent
our next stop was to visit this vineyard with an unpronounceable name where on an
open day you can enjoy the beautiful views characteristic of this wine region
Here We arrived at another vineyard called Es Grande Provance and
here we are going to eat oysters with a champagne a rosé sparkling wine
I added salt and pepper because I saw those next door adding salt and pepper and a little lemon of course
if you don't want to drive To be able to make your menus more relaxed
there is also the possibility of taking this train the Wine Tram
makes a tour of the most beautiful and famous vineyards of Franschoek
This is our last for right now we are going to have dinner this is the restaurant of a vineyard called
Due Donate the restaurant is called manger or Roca which seems to be that way on the map and well maybe
in this place it would be great to come a little co earlier because if you notice that it has a spectacular view
from here right now, as it was already very dark, you only see the people you need from the city
but maybe it could be the sunset stop. Our dinner arrived and I ordered a pasta with
seafood in arabiata sauce. And I looked at this spectacular piece of sirloin with mashed potatoes,
the truth is that South Africa the meat is very good of very good quality and the prices are very reasonable,
delicious, highly recommended, the place definitely South Africa is a totally gastronomic destination
Our brief visit to South Africa ends here and now we will immerse ourselves in
one of the wildest and most unspoilt regions in all of africa the Okavango Delta in Botswana.