01 45 minutes · R180 per person
Stellenbosch, Western Cape · Est. 1894
Wines of place,
made by hand.
A small family wine estate on the Banhoek slopes, ten generations from the soil. Cool-climate wines, an honest cellar and a long lunch table under the oaks.
The range
A short list, made well.
Six wines, all estate-grown. The MCC and the Oupa Chenin are our flagships; everything else is a wine we wanted to drink ourselves.
MCC · 2021 Chardonnay / Pinot Noir
A bone-dry MCC made the traditional way: hand-picked, whole-bunch pressed, fermented and aged in the same bottle for three full years.
White · 2024 100% Sauvignon Blanc
Picked at first light from the highest, coolest block on the farm. Stainless steel, no oak. Drink it young, drink it cold.
White · 2022 100% Chenin Blanc (1962 vines)
Sixty-year-old bush-vine Chenin from the block Oupa planted himself. Wild-fermented, old French oak, twelve months on the fine lees.
About the farm
Four generations.
One hectare of
bush vines.
Kloofkrans Estate sits on the cool southern slopes of the Banhoek Valley, halfway up the Helshoogte Pass between Stellenbosch and Franschhoek. The south-easter off False Bay reaches us most afternoons and slows the ripening down by two or three weeks.
We farm eighteen hectares: Chenin, Sauvignon, Pinotage, Syrah, a little Chardonnay and Pinot for the bubbles. The Oupa Block, planted in 1962, is the soul of the farm. Everything we do starts with what comes out of those forty rows.
Anna & Jakob de Wet
Cellar door
Come and taste.
Stay for lunch.
Walk-in tastings most days. Cellar tours and the long-table lunch by booking. We do not rush, so neither should you.
01 02 90 minutes · R450 per person
The Reserve Flight
03 2 hours · R350 per person
Cellar & Vineyard Tour
04 6 hours · R1 250 per person
Harvest Day
The cellar
Small batches,
old methods.
Everything is hand-picked. Whole-bunch pressed for the whites, basket-pressed for the reds. We ferment with the wild yeast that lives on the skins of the grapes. No inoculation, no adjustments we do not have to make.
The cellar is small on purpose. We make less than thirty thousand bottles a year, which is enough to live on and not so much that we lose the thread.
- Hand-picked, in trays of 14 kg
- Wild-yeast ferment, no inoculation
- Old French oak, 0–25% new across the range
- Bottled unfined and unfiltered
Venue hire
Weddings, long
lunches, slow weekends.
The oak avenue, the original cellar and the upper lawn are available for private events from twelve to one hundred and eighty guests. Three different settings, three different feels, one estate.
Set menus from our kitchen, our own wines, our own people. We do six to ten weddings a year and prefer the quiet ones.
Venue & weddingsWhere we are
Halfway up
Helshoogte Pass.
On the R310 between Stellenbosch and Franschhoek, fifteen minutes from Stellenbosch village. Look for the avenue of oaks; the gate is at the end of it.
- Cape Town airport 45 km
- Cape Town 55 km
- Stellenbosch village 12 km
- Franschhoek village 18 km
Press & guests
In their own words.
★ ★ ★ ★ ★“The Oupa Chenin is the best South African white I drank all year. Sense of place, restraint and that long saline finish you cannot fake.”
★ ★ ★ ★ ★“We came for a quick tasting and stayed for six hours, three more bottles and a lunch we will talk about for years.”
★ ★ ★ ★ ★“The MCC at Kloofkrans is the bottle I open when I want to remind myself that South African bubbles are now among the best on earth.”
Daily life
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