Underground Cellar Tour & Wine Tasting for Four | Robertson Wine Valley

In the early days of winemaking, before stainless steel, farmers would create underground cooling vaults for their wine. On Weltevrede, large areas were dug underground, river stones were brought up from the Breede River by donkey and cart and then cement cisterns were cast. These cisterns would annually be rubbed with molten beeswax to seal each hole and crack and prevent the wine from coming into contact with the raw cement. Since then these cisterns were virtually forgotten.

Join us on a unique experience of timelessness, while we take you on a tour of the underground tunnels, including a wine tasting by candlelight. When you walk through the tunnels, you experience the feeling of generations ago: candlelight, silence, spider webs, the dampness and smell of wine aging, oak barrels and burning wicks.

Weltevrede Wine Estate is located in the Robertson Wine Valley just outside the town of Bonnievale and has been owned by the Jonker family since 1912. Their wines focus on fine Chardonnays as well as excellent Philip Jonker MCCs and warming winter Muscadels under the Oupa and Ouma se Wyn label. This experience is the perfect excuse for a day out and a memorable way to escape the summer heat!

Suitable for adults only and may form part of another small group. Tunnel tour with wine tasting included for four adults. Pre-booking is essential.

Wine Tasting Takes place –

• Mondays – Fridays | 08:00 – 17:00
• Saturdays | 09:00 – 15:30
• Public Holidayâ€s | 09:00 – 15:30