The Franschhoek Wine Walk

We meet at the Dutch Reformed Church in the centre of town at 8:30am. This is the oldest building in town and a fitting place to start our wander.

After our welcome, we make our way down Main Street but quite quickly slip into a plum orchard and a local vineyard.

We cross some bridges and enter Mont Rochelle Wine Estate, where we have a stop at a dam.

With elevated views of the Franschhoek Valley, we taste Mont Rochelle wines on their deck.

The next leg of our amble is down a pleasant country lane, before entering the Bokkie Statue Garden at the stunning Leeu Estate.

We visit Mullineux & Leeu to taste five of their wines. Andrea Mullineux has been named SA’s winemaker of the year on five different occasions, so her wines and the tasting experience here are one of the highlights of the day.

With the day in full swing, we hop in a tuk tuk that escorts us to our lunch stop, the incomparable La Cotte Heritage Farm.

We enjoy a delicious lunch at La Cotte, the farm on which the town of Franschhoek was built. The Old Mill has recently been refurbished and is now a charming coffee shop, and our last stop.

We stroll down the route of La Cotte River and back into town.

We end back at the church, where we began our wine wander.