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The Manor House, a work by Paul de Villiers in the Cape Dutch style, is registered as a historical monument. With its splendid parquet floors, the woodwork and the objects of cabinet making... One walks through the park, planted with pomegranate, Indian lilac and pear trees, an immense estate. Opt for the Picnic from mid-October to mid-May: you buy your basket with a bottle and lie on the lawn for lunch. Both the restaurant and the shop remain open all year round. As for the cellar, you will love the black white (rosé), dry, fragrant, seductive as a tavel.

La Motte Estate is surely one of the most beautiful tasting rooms in the region. One room has been specially fitted out in the cellar, but separated from it by a huge bay window. The bottles are displayed in glass cases, like jewels. It is the property of the opera singer Hanneli Koegelenberg, daughter of the late billionaire Anton Rupert, the world's second largest luxury goods company and owner of three major cigarette brands.

Albert Camus, who is buried in Lourmarin, would no doubt have liked the Mediterranean sweetness of this sumptuous residence which cultivates the memory of its first owner, Jean Roi, originally from the Luberon. The beauty of the garden, the horses, the mouldings of the house, the small museum of old cars... It's all like a dream! The arms and the names of the Huguenot families appear on all the barrels. Note in the corner of your head that smoked white is a national bestseller and pinot gris a rarity.

Achim von Arnim has two loves: the champagne and Citroën. A DS and one 2 CV sleep in the courtyard. As for champagne, Achim made the bet approach some as much as possible by rigorously applying the Champagne method, or rather the Cap Classique method. Haute Cabrière is the only private estate to be devoted exclusively to the sparkling wines of big class. Haute Cabrière also produces, in very small quantity, the only ratafia liqueur of South Africa, as well as the quiet one, a high delicious rosy gray starting from a Champagne assembly.

The house, founded by the Huguenot Jacques de Villiers in 1694, is one of the most beautiful in the valley. It is a very nice wine that this blend is made with almost century-old Semillon vines. Here we try to respect the fruit and its freshness as much as possible. To preserve the flavours, the vinification is done in a circular cellar and by a system of gravity and not by pumping over. Among the 15 ha of magnificent vines and its different soils, you can for example test the famous shiraz-viogner, which offers a rather original result.

At the end of a small courtyard, the smell of chocolate calls you! Run quickly, it is here that De Villiers Chocolate prepares and sells good chocolate in bars, dark, milk, caramel or hot chocolate to be tasted on the spot. In the small courtyard, a few tables are set up on the artificial lawn. Take a break over a good coffee accompanied by a piece of chocolate or even a cup of ice cream for the greediest.