Extensive roadworks in Franschhoek, Drakenstein, Simondium, and Klapmuts may cause delays. Please factor this into your travel plans to the Franschhoek Wine Tram. Service may be affected on your booking day.
Franschhoek Wine Tram Curated Wine Experience:
Enhance your visit to the Cape Winelands by immersing yourself in the world-renowned winemaking culture of the Franschhoek Valley while discovering local wines under the expert guidance of our knowledgeable wine ambassador and sampling the best of local cuisine.
Join us for a wine experience that showcases Franschhoek’s picturesque vineyards, breathtaking scenery, warm hospitality, world-class cuisine, fine wines, and a 300-year history.
Tour Experience:
The day starts with a journey by tram to a local wine estate where our wine ambassador weaves the facts, figures, and scientific aspects of winemaking into interesting stories about Franschhoek’s history of wine and culture.
During this engaging and interactive experience, guests will be guided through, and have an opportunity to sample, the subtle tastes of terroir, as well as learn about the local grape varieties, cultivars, and aspects of viticulture that are unique to Southern Africa.
After the morning lecture, guests will join the wine guide on a tour of the estate wine cellar followed by a specially curated three-course gourmet lunch at the estate restaurant.
In the afternoon, guests will visit two local wine estates in Franschhoek, enjoying a premium wine tasting and wine pairing at the two estates.
At the end of the experience, guests will leave feeling more knowledgeable and connected to the local wine culture and ready to discover the Franschhoek Valley further.
Tour Highlights:
• Depart from the Franschhoek Terminal at 10:30 am
• The passage on the double-decker railway tram to a local wine estate
• Wine lecture by a wine ambassador
• Guided cellar tour (when available)
• Three-course lunch
• Premium wine tastings at two additional wine estates
• Return to the Franschhoek Terminal at approximately 5 pm
Franschhoek Valley:
Breath-taking scenery, warm hospitality, world-class cuisine, and fine wines: These are the hallmarks of the beautiful Franschhoek Valley in the heart of the Cape Winelands. When the Huguenots first settled in this spectacular valley over 300 years ago, they brought with them their traditions and knowledge in winemaking and viticulture from their native France and transformed the wilderness around them into one of the most beautiful valleys in the world. This proud heritage can be seen and felt today in the Village and on the surrounding farms.
The fertile Franschhoek Valley is home to some of South Africa’s noble cultivars and classic styles. These range from superb whites such as Sauvignon Blanc, Chardonnay, Semillon, and Chenin Blanc, to the full-bodied reds of Cabernet Sauvignon, Shiraz, Petit Verdot, and Merlot.
The tour is strictly a wine-tasting experience and does not host celebration events such as birthdays or bachelor/bachelorette parties as the estates visited are primarily wine-tasting venues and not party venues. In order to properly exercise their duties, the Franschhoek Wine Tram staff members place a legitimate expectation on all guests not to behave in an unacceptably loud, disruptive, offensive, or intoxicated manner. Should any such behaviour be exhibited the Franschhoek Wine Tram reserves its right to suspend or withdraw its services. All vehicles are fitted with CCTV and monitored throughout the service.
CANCELLATION POLICY (All services including chauffeur/transfer services):
24 hours + = 100% REFUND
Less than 24 hours before scheduled TIME SLOT = No Refund
Please send a cancellation email to info@winetram.co.za including your booking ID on the subject to request a refund.
Passengers may dine at one of several restaurants on the tour. To avoid disappointment, it is highly recommended that passengers make reservations for lunch/picnic at least 24-48 hours in advance. Food or open alcoholic beverages are not allowed on the tour though food and drinks are available for purchase at the wine estates. Wine tastings can be purchased at each wine estate directly. Kindly take into consideration that some wine estates are cashless and require card payments only.
Tickets are to be collected on the day of your tour. Please be at the Ticket Office +/-20 minutes prior to your departure time.
Please take note that pets are not permitted on the tour.
Items of a personal nature
Chauffeur/Transfer – Please note transfers are added at an additional cost to your booking.
Please note all our tours are not wheelchair friendly as the vehicles are all safari-type vehicles. All clients travelling with us need to be mobile due to stairs in all vehicles as well as accessibility at the wine estates. Please contact our offices (info@winetram.co.za or 021 300 0338) for personalised options.
This Franshhoeck Curated Wine Tram Tour was perfect! Our guide was wonderful. The winery visits were amazing. Food wine pairings were perfect. We loved the "extras" we experienced beyond what the hop on hop off visits would have provided. I highly recommend this tour. Leave the planning to the pros ? - Barbara
Woah, what a fun day! From the get-go when we arrived and got checked in on our reservation for the curated wine experience we felt that we were in good hands. Our friendly and VERY enthusiastic guide, Simon, introduced himself to us and quickly let us know what a terrific ride and itinerary (hence forth named "The Madness") we had before us. We were hyped! The day starts with the trip on the famous Franschhoek Wine Tram and since you're part of the curated experience you also get handed a glass of bubbles. The fun continuous and you are walked around great vineyards and get to know all you ever wanted to know about making wine, drinking wine, blending wine, enjoying wine, and just... Wine! You really feel that you are being taken care of since you get to see a lot of behind the scenes, get brought to special tasting rooms and really see the ins-and-outs of the vineyards. For the tastings you are presented to a wide variety of both whites and reds, more experimental and less experimental wines, but overall quite great wine! You are also presented with spices to help you feel the different tastes in wine and make some taste notes more or less obvious. The day flows very good and you are never far from the next tasting and learning, but the whole thing did not feel rushed at all. Our guide, Simon, was great fun the entire day and very attentive to all our different personalities, we are shy Scandinavians but both Simon and the group was very friendly and we all got along great. We've been to previous tastings/guided experiences in France and Italy, but this one was the best one in terms of beautiful scenery, good mix of learning/tasting and fun. Greatly recommended, we had a great time, just make sure to bring some extra bags, because you will want to bring some very good wine and even greater prices with you. - Dennis
We had a great time. Informative and fun. They guide was clear and helpful, as was the chap at Rickety Bridge, who was a very hospitable host. We enjoyed lunch. Our only comment would be it would have been good to have had some snacks at La Brie. The wine was very heavy there and we had all had quite a few glasses by then! - Keith
Our experience widely went beyond our expectations! Especially our guide ANGA with her warm, competent and personal attitude made the tour to a great and educative trip. We also want to highlight the competence and presentation of GLEN from "Rickety Bridge" throughout the cellar tour followed by the tasting and pairing! We further visited "La Bri" (interesting contrast to the bigger wineries) and "Grande Provence" where we enjoyed two further great tastings and pairings (sweet and oysters). Overall rating therefore is 10/10 and really value for money! Thanks and greetings from Vienna, Austria, Michael and Susanne - Michael
The curated wine experience was an absolutely brilliant day, a highlight, a genuinely stand out occasion that will live long in the memory. From the moment of entering the Franschhoek tram depot we were treated as VIP guests. Our guide for the day was Simon who was charismatic, charming and extremely knowledgeable. We went to three separate tastings and had a wonderful meal that was also accompanied by delicious wines. The learning experience was very informative and done in such a considered and informal way making it thoroughly enjoyable. By the finish of the day we were a little the worse for wear but as happy as can be. I don't think you will get a better wine experience anywhere in the world. I recommend it without a moment's hesitation. - Simon
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