Taking place from June 3-6, the Robertson Wine Valley’s Wacky Wine Weekend will celebrate its seventh anniversary this year.
The Wacky Wine Weekend is once again being extended from the conventional weekend experience to include four festive days and will have 50 wineries participating in the festival. Each day will celebrate its unique signature wine theme.
Tailor-made activities will include: master wine tastings, wine and food pairings, educational wine presentations and private tastings with the Valley’s most esteemed winemakers.
The usual line-up of activities includes: ‘meet-the-winemaker’ tastings, brandy tours and tastings, vineyard tractor trips, river cruises, sunset game drives, cheese and olive tastings, a farmers’ market, a fireworks display, a simulated rodeo bull, the half-marathon and mountain bike challenge. New attractions include: Robertson Winter Market, helicopter flips and a community tent with local performing artists.
As part of the Robertson Wine Valley’s commitment to ensure a safe festival, a Zero Tolerance Policy is implemented towards ‘drinking and driving’. Visitors are requested to make use of the Buddy Bus or the Designated Driver Programme. The Buddy Bus facility enables groups of eight or more visitors to hire a chauffeur-driven minibus. Drivers who register for the Designated Driver Programme will be rewarded with a whole host of ‘complimentaries’ including free coffee, soft drinks, coupons and special deals.
Wacky Wine Weekend Bus-In Packages are also available. A2B Tours will be offering one-day packages, with transport departing from the Waterfront, Tygervalley, Stellenbosch, Somerset West and Paarl to Robertson, and ‘Buddy Bus’ transport between the participating wineries. For visitors from further afield, Beyond Reach has once again put together great fly-in packages that include flights, car rental and accommodation.
