Paul Cluver Wines
A cool-climate Elgin estate on a family apple and timber farm, known for Pinot Noir and Riesling.
Trip Role
Ideal stay
Our take
The estate that made Elgin a wine region.
The estate that made Elgin a wine region.
- Trip Role
- Quick Stop
- Ideal Stay
- 1-2 hours
Why it's worth your time
The estate that showed the Cape what Elgin could do. The Riesling is unusual; the Pinot and the Chardonnay are the reason most people come. A quiet, forested tasting.
What we love
The Riesling — a grape almost no one else in South Africa does well.
What to know
The Cluver family pioneered cool-climate wine in Elgin in the 1990s, on a farm that had been apples and timber for generations; the Riesling remains one of the only serious Rieslings in the Cape.
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