My Unbelievable experience at South Africas Wine Farms (Cape town)

I took a trip down to the wine lands of South Africa. South Africa currently produces over 1 billion liters of wine every year. Imagine what 1 billion liters look like. And this 1 billion liters of wine is what is exported all over the world. So South Africa is majorly known for wine production. And most of the wine lands are located in Cape Town, South Africa. There are actually three popular places where the wine is produced. There's Berlin Busch, there's Pal, and there's Frans Hoek. Frans Hoek, I think it's a French word, or a Dutch word, Frans Hoek. So I said, okay, let me take a trip down to this place to see what it's like. And man, I almost got drunk. I didn't get drunk, actually. I drink wine a lot. But man, I was just tasting so many different kinds of wine. The first place we went to was a place called Cavalli. We finally just got to the beautiful wine farms of Stirling Busch. I'm at a place called Cavalli. It means horse, just like Cavalli, like Roberto Cavalli. So guys, let's go inside now and explore Cavalli together. Yeah, boy. So our first wine is now the White Knight. White Knight? White Knight, yes. It's called the White Knight. Okay, so I swirl it like this? You swirl it like that. Yeah. You nose it. Pick up any flavors. My nose is horrible. When I was younger, they said, don't smell your food. But now we are smelling wine, before we drink it. It's a nice place. It has an indoor restaurant and also an outdoor area where you can chill. It also has a nice lake. Apparently, when you're trying to take wine, you swirl it and then you smell it and all that stuff we see on TV. But I was like, what's all this? What's all this? If you're giving me wine, I just open it and I just drink it. I ain't got time to start swirling and start smelling it. I ain't no wine taster. I'm just a normal Nigerian guy, you know, African boy, just out there trying to do my thing. So I just wanted to just take the wine and drink it and just have a nice meal with it. So I just did my first wine tasting. I had three glasses of wine. And what I can basically say is that wine, when you're tasting it fresh from the farm, it sort of tastes a little bit different than wine that you're opening your house because you can see where they're making it from. Everything's fresh. So they gave me three wines and I tried out three wines. And when it comes to pricing, it wasn't so expensive. It was cheap, actually. I was surprised because ambience and all that bougie lifestyle and all of that. If I took a picture online, I told you that, oh, I went to the wine lands. You'd think I spent like 1,000 rand, but I just spent 40 rand. Thank you. Bye. Bye-bye. Drove along the highway and on the left and on the right, you can see a lot of wine lands. You can see an amazing landscape. You can see a lot of nice houses. They were built in a specific style. Apparently, most of the houses have Dutch design. After this spot, the next place we went to was a place called the Hidden Valley. So they have a restaurant at the top, which has a remarkable view of many of the wine lands in Cape Town. The top restaurant deck is where you want to probably get a nice meal. It's also more expensive. So what's so special about this place compared to the other ones? More about the beauty, the landscape. Okay, I can see a lot of art sculptures and stuff like that on the walls and stuff. This is where we were in Cavalli. Yeah. The wines were named after the horses. Yeah. Here, they named them after the sculptures. So for this side, they have the restaurant, which is behind me. I'm sure you can see it just right here. And when you switch to this side, they have the landscape where they plant most of the grapes for the wine. So guys, these are olive trees. I don't even know what olive tree looks like, but now I do. So we got a nice spot and we just sat down there and I was watching a lot of cars coming in and it was really, really awesome. Sterling Butch Farms just over there. We bought burger and chips, which was 150 Rand. Not so expensive for a day out. I was with Tingu and his brother and it was an awesome experience. It was just a vibe. We're just chilling and talking and chatting and he was telling me a lot of stuff about South Africa that I never knew. Gave me more insights into also the history of South Africa. He's a wonderful tour guide. I'm gonna link his page down below. You guys should check him out if you're coming to South Africa, if you're coming to Cape Town. He's an awesome, amazing person. Getting parking at this second spot was actually difficult because a lot of people were coming in here. A lot of people. So guys, there's something I've noticed that I wanna talk about today. Whenever I go to most of all these locations, which I noticed in Kenya, Ghana, Cape Verde, and now in South Africa, is most of the people who come to these places that I'm showing in most of these videos are usually not locals. More people coming from outside Africa to Africa, yeah, it gives us revenue and it also exposes them to parts of Africa. But I feel more local people should also travel around their location. Because where I came to, I was one of the only black people there. I feel the more black people travel, explore, the more our minds are open up to new ideas. Like me now, I'm thinking, okay, maybe one day I might want to get a wine farm because I've been to a wine farm and I'm like, ah, wine farm. People with wine farm are making this much money. Maybe I should start my wine farm business. When we travel, it sort of exposes us to new ideas. So you guys should comment below. Is it that black people don't like traveling or is it that black people don't like exploring? The last place we went to was a place called The Graff. The Graff is a luxury dining type place. They have a spa. They also have really nice apartments where you can just come there and chill and spend the night. If you want to experience the wild lands, I did spend the night there because I think the price was expensive and I already had a place I would stay in town. We're currently inside this really nice place and this is where we're going to be doing the wine tasting. It looks great though. It just kind of looks like Bonner Boy, but I definitely know it's not Bonner Boy. That was also a nice experience. Apparently, the owner of this place has a nice helipad at the back of this place where he lands his helicopter. He also has a diamond store because I saw some nice diamonds on display. This place is sort of like upscale, upmarket. The wines are more expensive because the wine I got here, I tasted three wines here too and three of them were for 75 rand compared to the first one I tasted that was 40 rand. So I want to try it out now. I've seen so many places like this in different countries I've been to. This place is very similar to the tea farms in Kenya. The landscape, it looks very, very similar. I did a video on that, you should check it out. And also there's a place in Nigeria called Genbu in Taraba State. It also has a similar visual to this. South Africa is beautiful. I keep saying that every time. South Africa is very beautiful. I plan on sharing more places, going to more places, going on more adventures and sharing my experience with you guys because I want more people to travel. I want more people watching this to travel. I know lockdown has discouraged a lot of traveling all around, but I want more people to travel around Africa. The more we explore our cultures, the more we understand each other, the more we understand that we are more similar than we are different. Also, don't forget to check out Tingle's Instagram page and also check out his website. He has a lot of tours planned in Cape Town. If you're coming to Cape Town, check it out. So if you like this video, please hit the like button and subscribe to my channel and I'll see you guys on the next one. Peace.