The Stellenbosch/Franschhoek region of South Africa is ideal for viticulture. Above, a family tours the area’s Leeu Estate
There’s no contest. Australia’s Barossa Valley, Margaret River, and Mornington Peninsula, Napa Valley in the USA, Marlborough in New Zealand — all spectacular but no match for the Stellenbosch/Franschhoek region of South Africa.
It is best summed up by former Springbok rugby player Jan Boland Coetzee, when I asked him to describe to foreign travellers just…