Here's what you need to know before visiting Cape Town, including the best places to stay, shop, and eat.

South Africa’s leading winemakers were recently celebrated at the 2025 Diners Club awards, taking home the country’s most prestigious wine honours...

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There’s something undeniably magical about waking up on a wine farm.

Cape Town is home to some of the best beaches in the world, each with their own distinct personality and attractions. These are our favourites.

On 8 November 2025, the winners of the 2025 Golden Vines Awards were announced in a ceremony at the Faena Forum in Miami. Winners included Weingut Egon...

Our hunt for the world's best wines touches down in Africa, where we find a surprisingly old wine industry. Read the latest wine news & opinion on wine-searcher

The Montreux Jazz Festival will host its first African edition in Franschhoek from March 27-29, 2026. Featuring international and South African per…

Planning a vacation to Cape Town? Travel + Leisure A-List advisor Emily Baldwin takes readers through the city’s top sights, shops, bites, and stays.

The Sauvignon Blanc section at any local wine shop is typically dominated by just a few countries, each with its own star producers and usual-suspect growing regions that monopolize attention (often well deserved). But for every big name, there are so many others that deserve their due — and they usually come with less demand and a lower price tag. We posed the question to wine professionals from around the country: What Sauvignon Blancs are we missing out on? Instead of the ubiquitous Sancerre, they told us, look to the many other appellations elsewhere in the Loire Valley.

While Europe cools, South Africa’s Garden Route is warming up. The resort town of Keurboomstrand pairs barefoot charm with elegant...

Cape Winelands Airport (CWA) has received Environmental Authorisation (EA) from the Western Cape Department of Environmental Affairs and Developmen…

A world of their own, these destination wine estates have everything you need for a day in the country filled with food and other pleasurable pursuits.

“When you get into the wine business, you’re crazy,” Rupert told the crowd at Wine Spectator’s New York Wine Experience. Learn more about this wine star!

South Africa’s red wines are having a renaissance thanks to bold winemakers crafting wines as complex and beautiful as the landscapes where the grapes grow. Here are standout South African wineries to...

A weekend escape for well-heeled locals and a portal to slow living for excited travellers, the Cape Winelands have wooed travellers for years. But the region,

South Africa’s red wines are having a renaissance thanks to bold winemakers crafting wines as complex and beautiful as the landscapes where the grapes grow. Here are standout South African wineries to...

It was in the midst of Cape Wine that Wines of South Africa unveiled its new marketing slogan - “There’s sunshine inside” - to celebrate its winemaking heritage. Having spent a week in South Africa,...

Such has been the pace of change in the South African wine industry over the last 15 years - particularly in terms of the quality, consistency and diversity of wines being produced - it is perhaps not...

With the recent Cape Winemakers Guild auction smashing its pre-sale, South Africa’s fine wine scene is garnering increasing attention as prices, quality and reputation continue to grow, Bordeaux Index...