While the vineyards are still decked out in the last vestiges of orange and yellow and late autumn starts to tickle its cold fingers down your spine, it is time for our farms to throw open the barn doors and invite the world to come and celebrate at our annual Wacky Wine Weekend, this year to be held from 4th to 7th June 2015.

Time has been the winemaker's assistant and the first of the crop is ready to drink.  Tents are up and tables and chairs dusted off. Musicians come from far and wide and a buzz of excitement vibrates through the air. We rejoice in the product of last year's labour and the rest that is to come and in life itself.

The Wacky Wine Weekend will embrace the usual line-up of fun-filled activities, for example:
'meet-the-winemaker' tastings, brandy tours and tastings, river cruises, barrel tastings, cheese- and olive tastings, a simulated rodeo bull, a mountain bike challenge and local performing artists.

The Valley will also be presenting a gastronomic extravaganza, with visitors spoilt for choice: oysters, abalone, freshly baked breads, sushi, riverside picnics and plenty of stalls with fresh produce  are just a few of the gourmet delights on offer. 

There will be two aspects to the Designated Driver option for 2015.  The first option will be to “hire” a local designated driver who will see to your destination requirements throughout the festival.  Contact details for these drivers can be found on www.wackywineweekend.com. Costs for the weekend can be determined according to individual festival goers needs upon booking.

The second option will be for those individual festival goers who will be enjoying all the fun but will refrain from drinking in order to be the designated driver for his friends.  This individual will purchase a passport at R120 to enable access to all the amenities but will in addition receive a special Designated Driver pass and goodie bag.

Wacky Wine Weekend Bus-In Packages are also available. A2B Tours will be offering one day packages, with transport departing from the Waterfront, Tygervalley, Stellenbosch (Butterfly World) and Paarl, to Robertson, and 'Buddy Bus' transport between the participating wineries. See contact details below.

For visitors from further a-field, Beyond Reach has once again put together great Fly-In Packages that include flights, car rental and accommodation.

So head out to the Robertson Wine Valley for a winter getaway at the Wacky Wine Weekend – where the fun never stops!

For all enquiries please contact:

Robertson Wine Valley on (023) 626 3167

Or email manager@robertsonwinevalley.com

Visit the Wacky Wine Weekend website. www.wackywineweekend.com