A trip to Simon's Town

This is a sea-side town of penguins, baboon lovers and shark spotters, seagull shrieks and the rare red moon rise and where wild seas (are) barking like seals and people are snake queuing at Salty Sea Dog’s for the best fish ’n chips this side of the Atlantic.

Groot Constantia - the great grandmother of wine production

The great-grandmother of wine production has not lost her charm and elegance of the olden days, finds Jeanri-Tine van Zyl.

Asara Wine Estate & Hotel, Stellenbosch

If it’s 5 Star luxury you’re after, and you have dozens of guests requiring comfortable accommodation, this opulent property with its Relais & Chateaux hotel and three-storey ‘honeymoon tower’ (complete with winding staircase and Victorian tub - your friends may never see you again) is suitably equipped.

Wine

Business Day, 12 November 2008. The season of super-deluxe wines is upon us again, with the release a few weeks ago of the second edition of Waterford’s The Jem and the slightly more recent launch of the 2005 vintage of Vergelegen’s “V”.