Tours · Private days from Cape Town
Wellington's best farms are small, family-run and about an hour from Cape Town, which is exactly why most visitors never make it. We collect you from your door, take you to three boutique estates in the Bovlei Valley, and bring you home. Nobody has to stay sober but the driver.
Affiliated with Dunstone Country Estate · All CapeX drivers hold a PrDP and are background-checked.
A Wellington day
Why Wellington
Small family estates where the person pouring is often the person who made the wine. No tour buses, no queues.
Dunstone's A.R.T Gallery and A.R.T Walk take the exhibition out into the vineyards. Lunch is at Roots, farm to table.
An hour each way is the reason people skip Wellington. Your driver takes the road; everyone else tastes.
Photos: Dunstone Country Estate, Doolhof Wine Estate and Jacaranda Wine Estate
The three farms
Every Wellington day visits all three, in this order. Drive times are approximate, from Cape Town city centre. Tastings and lunch are paid at the farms.
The smallest registered wine estate in South Africa: 3.2 hectares at the foot of the Groenberg, handcrafted small-batch wines, and a manor house named for its jacaranda trees.
~10h30 · tasting
Known for: tiny batches, big character
Award-winning wines under the Limietberg. Doolhof means labyrinth, which suits the mountain roads on the way in.
~12h00 · tasting
Known for: wines with a mountain view
Finish with a farm-to-table lunch at Roots Bistro, a Dunstone tasting, and time in the A.R.T Gallery and on the A.R.T Walk.
~13h30 · lunch & gallery
Known for: lunch, art and the views
Wines, Roots Bistro and the A.R.T Gallery are on Dunstone Country Estate's website.
The route
Wellington sits under the Hawequa and Limiet mountains, quieter than Stellenbosch and Franschhoek and full of small farms that don't need a tasting room the size of a hotel lobby.
Tasting fees and lunch are paid at the farms, at your own cost. We arrange tasting times with the farms when we confirm your day.
The route is built around these three, but tell us when you book if you'd like a longer stop somewhere, or to swap a farm out.
A.R.T'Wine is Dunstone's monthly Bovlei Valley Market: art, antiques, vintage finds, makers, food and local wine, 09h00 to 16h00, with free entry. If your Wellington day falls on a market Saturday (21 November, 16 January, 20 February), you'll be at Dunstone while it's on. CapeX is the transport partner.
Any day the farms are open. Saturdays are the liveliest, especially A.R.T'Wine market Saturdays at Dunstone. Some farm restaurants close earlier on Sundays, so we plan the day around opening hours.
Yes, and Dunstone's gallery and gardens suit families. Wine tastings are for guests aged 18 and over.
From 1 guest up to 14 in one vehicle. Bigger groups get more vehicles.
Book your Wellington day
Tell us the date, how many of you there are and where we're collecting you. We'll come back on WhatsApp with one quote for the day and your pickup time.
CapeX Transport Group is affiliated with Dunstone Country Estate.
Thanks. We'll come back to you on WhatsApp with your quote and pickup time, usually the same working day.