Self Guided Franschhoek Wine Tour GPS Audio Guide

Three white arches at the head of the village, unveiled in 1948 for the refugees of 1688; the museum beside it tells the story of the edict that drove them out of France.

Family-run cellar on the pass road above the village, Pinot Noir and Chardonnay only, led today by cellar master Takuan von Arnim under the creed that wine is grown, not made.

Cap Classique house making nothing else, from Pinot Noir, Chardonnay and Pinot Meunier; claims the first Agrafe Cap Classique in the Cape, fermented under cork and clip.

One thing, two grapes: Cap Classique from Pinot Noir and Chardonnay, more than half the Chardonnay from its own farm; Brut Reserve, Blanc de Blancs and Brut Rosé on the counter.

Founded in 1991 with what it calls South Africa’s first underground maturation cellar; 36 hectares of vines planted high on the valley slopes between 400 and 600 metres.

anor house, gallery and restaurant at the village end of the R45.

Land granted to Huguenot farmers in 1694 and owned in the 1830s by Paulina Pepler, one of South Africa’s first female landowners; tastings at the bridge on the R45.

Food, literature and conservation on the valley’s main road: rotisserie restaurant, family tables, a shop and sponsor of the Cape Leopard Trust.

Named in 1709 by Huguenot Pierre Joubert for his Provençal village; manor from the 1750s, owned by the Rupert family since 1970, with a bakery, farm shop and concert programme.

L’Ormarins, named for the Huguenot village of Lourmarin, the farm on which Rupert Wines was founded; a large estate at the heart of the family’s valley.

onument, 1,900 hectares of working farm with the Werf and the Cellar Door for tasting.

Allocated in 1688 to Flemish merchant Jacques de Savoye off the ship Oosterland and named peace and delight; the Buys family has farmed it since 1996.

A 1997 partnership between Dr Anton Rupert and Baron Edmond de Rothschild, whose family has owned Château Lafite since 1868; on the Simondium side under the Simonsberg.

One of the oldest working Cape Dutch farms, at the foot of the Simonsberg, where the garden leads everything: menus, hotel rooms and a Cap Classique called Sprankel.

Among the first Cape producers of Chardonnay, from 1988, on 145 hectares of the Simonsberg-Paarl hills along the Simondium road.

Bought in 1916 by Charles Louis Back, who arrived from Lithuania in 1902 with nothing; four generations of Backs later the name is still on the gate.