Today we visited four farms:
3.) D'Aria - a quaint little place with an award winning white wine - however we stuck to the reds. Nothing inspiring here, however they offer very nice little "take away" cheese platters ideal for a day on the road moving between farms. Six wines on offer for R10.
12.) Nitida - this interesting place was much bigger with two restaurants and a tasting room filled with barrels and barrels of maturing wine. The main restaurant was beautifully open and modern with the second one being more intimate and a function venue. The wines were very good and boasted varieties that tasted of peppercorns, fruit cake and dark chocolate respectively. Definitely worth a try and you might even find yourself leaving with a bottle or two. They had four wines on offer for R20.
9.) Hillcrest - definitely the highlight of the day!!! One of the best wine guides I have seen with a very intimate wine tasting setting right in their open/outside restaurant area. They also sell olives and olive oils, but definitely some of the better reds that I have tasted! Absolutely worth the trip and I can see myself ploughing through many bottles of unlabeled red in the future! They offer quite a different tasting range borrowing some of the French flair for a really good tasting wine range. Six glasses for R20.
7.) Durbanville Hills - definitely the most disappointing I have experienced. The building felt like I was driving up to some dingy compound on the outside although it was very large and discreetly decorated on he inside. Here they offer to pair the wines with chocolates or biltong and I could quickly understand why as all the wine was rather lackluster and left much to be desired. Sadly the unfriendly wine servers helped to dissuade me from ever visiting this place again...eight wines for R25 - we left after four...
Overall a great experience at Hillcrest which will definitely see me again and a great start to an exciting year of wining and dining.
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