Wine of Origin district · Cape South Coast
Hemel-en-Aarde Pinot and Chardonnay above Hermanus, plus Bot River and Stanford.
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Farms with the most visitor information (opening hours, phone numbers, photos) are listed first.
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Genevieve MCC is a Bot River sparkling specialist on Klein Botrivier Farm, Karwyderskraal Road, in the Walker Bay / Overberg wine country between Hermanus, Kleinmond, Elgin and Hemel-en-Aarde day-trip radii.
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Hemel-en-Aarde Valley · Walker Bay
Whalehaven sits at the entrance to the Hemel-en-Aarde Valley just outside Hermanus—published address Cnr. Village Lane & Hemel-en-Aarde Road (also described as R43 / Hemel-en-Aarde Road).
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Southern Right is the specialist Pinotage and Sauvignon Blanc brand founded in 1994 by Anthony Hamilton Russell.
Walker Bay
Benguela Cove Lagoon Wine Estate is a large, family-owned visitor estate on the Bot River Lagoon off the R43, framed as a Walker Bay / Hermanus gateway rather than a tiny cellar door.
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Hemel-en-Aarde Valley · Walker Bay
La Vierge sits in the cool-climate Hemel-en-Aarde Ridge / Walker Bay winegrowing area near Hermanus, with its visitor-facing tasting room and restaurant at 12 Hemel-en-Aarde Road.
Walker Bay
Misty Mountains Estate sits on the R43 between Hermanus and Stanford, on the banks of the Klein River beneath the Klein River Mountains, in the Walker Bay / Stanford winegrowing area.
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PaardenKloof Estate is a boutique cool-climate wine property in the Bot River (Botrivier) region of the Overberg / Walker Bay sphere, producing site-specific, single-varietal, single-vineyard wines in small batches.
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Wildekrans Wine Estate is a large (~1 000 hectare) Bot River Valley property among indigenous rhenosterbos, about an hour from Cape Town International Airport and roughly 20–30 minutes from Hermanus depending on the…
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Bartho Eksteen Wine Estate sits on the R320 / Hemel-en-Aarde Road outside Hermanus, in the Walker Bay cool-climate belt often called the Valley of Heaven and Earth.
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Bosman Hermanus is the Walker Bay cellar door of Bosman Family Vineyards, set on De Bos farm along Karwyderskraal Road in the Upper Hemel-en-Aarde Valley above Hermanus.
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Hermanuspietersfontein—often shortened to HPF or HPF1855—is the unpretentious Hemel-en-Aarde Village cellar known for cool-climate wines grown at the edge of the Cape, with vineyards stretching into Sondagskloof.
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Hemel-en-Aarde Valley · Walker Bay
Newton Johnson Vineyards is a family-owned and family-managed wine farm on the R320 Hemel-en-Aarde Road in the Upper Hemel-en-Aarde Valley, near Hermanus in South Africa’s Walker Bay region.
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Hemel-en-Aarde Valley · Walker Bay
Ataraxia Wines sits on a commanding rise known as The Skyfields on the Hemel-en-Aarde Road near Hermanus, in the cool, Atlantic-influenced Hemel-en-Aarde / Walker Bay winegrowing area.
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Hemel-en-Aarde Valley · Walker Bay
Domaine des Dieux (“Place of the Gods”) is a boutique family wine farm on the Hemel-en-Aarde Ridge along the R320 toward Caledon, in Walker Bay’s cool elevated foothills of the Babylonstoren mountain range.
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Escape Wines—also branded ESC Wines—is a small vineyard-and-protea farm on Karwyderskraal Road in the Walker Bay / Bot River maritime belt, roughly 15 km from Hermanus, with views toward the Bot River Lagoon and cooling…
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Hemel-en-Aarde Valley · Walker Bay
Hasher Family Wines is the cool-climate estate of Céline and Frederik (Hasher family) in the Upper Hemel-en-Aarde Valley near Hermanus—the property formerly known as Sumaridge, acquired by the couple around 2021 and…
Upper Hemel-en-Aarde Valley · Walker Bay
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Hemel-en-Aarde Valley · Walker Bay
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Upper Hemel-en-Aarde Valley · Walker Bay
Alheit Vineyards is the project of Chris and Suzaan Alheit, centred on old, dry-farmed bush vines and a deliberately hands-off cellar philosophy.
Hemel-en-Aarde Valley · Walker Bay
Sumaridge Wine Estate is the historic Upper Hemel-en-Aarde name associated with a large Walker Bay property overlooking the valley toward Hermanus and the Atlantic.
Hemel-en-Aarde Valley · Walker Bay
Spookfontein sits on the R320 Hemel-en-Aarde Road in the cool Upper Hemel-en-Aarde / Walker Bay corridor behind Hermanus—between the Kleinrivier and Babilonstoring mountains on a 313-hectare farm.
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Hemel-en-Aarde Valley · Walker Bay
Ashbourne is the Hamilton Russell family brand founded by Anthony Hamilton Russell in 1996 on a roughly 64-hectare property in the Hemel-en-Aarde Valley on the eastern border of Hamilton Russell Vineyards, close to the…
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Bouchard Finlayson is one of Hemel-en-Aarde’s foundational boutique estates—cool-climate Pinot Noir and Chardonnay with a Burgundian bent, founded in 1989 by Burgundian Paul Bouchard and South African trailblazer Peter…
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Hemel-en-Aarde Valley · Walker Bay
Crystallum is a family-run, privately owned winery based in the Walker Bay region of South Africa.
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Maanschijn—from the Dutch for moonlight—is a young, artisanal wine project based at Stonefields on Route 43 (R43), Hermanus, 7200, in the cool Walker Bay district.
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Mount Babylon is a family-owned wine farm in the foothills of the Babylon’s Toring (Babylonstoring) mountains, looking over the Hemel-en-Aarde Valley in South Africa’s Walker Bay wine district.
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Hemel-en-Aarde Valley · Walker Bay
Whale Coast Wine Cellar is a wine farm in Hemel-en-Aarde Valley, Walker Bay, Western Cape. About 93 km from Cape Town.
Walker Bay is the district; Hemel-en-Aarde is the name on most wine lists. The road from Hermanus toward Caledon climbs a shale valley that has become South Africa's most convincing Pinot Noir and Chardonnay address. Three wards stack up the valley — Hemel-en-Aarde Valley, Upper Hemel-en-Aarde Valley, Hemel-en-Aarde Ridge — with Bot River, Sunday's Glen, Springfontein Rim and Stanford Foothills around them.
The climate is cool and windy. Clay-rich Bokkeveld shale is the soil story. Visitor infrastructure is good: a linear tasting route, restaurants in Hermanus, and a weekend rhythm tied to whales in season. WineFarmz maps Walker Bay farms so a Hemel-en-Aarde day can be ordered from coast to ridge instead of by reputation alone.