15 February Route 62

Route 62, or the Klein Karoo Wine Route, is claimed as the longest and most diverse wine route of South Africa's wine regions. True it is long and we found many wineries as we drove from Oudtshoorn towards Cape Town between two spectacular mountain ranges – the Langeberge and Swartberge mountains. It is a far prettier road than the N2 which we drove out on.

Barrydale church

It was still morning but I insisted on stopping to investigate and taste. The wine cellars are more perhaps less grand than those we visited in Franschoek but their wines are very good and the welcomes were warm. The road passes through some very pretty, historic villages like Barrydale where I could have shopped and lingered longer except we still had miles to cover and a little cat waiting to see us. (Our friends were checking on her morning and night so she wasn't entirely abandoned.)

We finished our trip with buying a half case of Pinotage from Montagu Wines, a late lunch in the town and then it was back on the road and home.