The sun worshippers and Wine Cellar Designers are out all along the golden strip from Clifton to Camps Bay. After a day on the beach, the bronzed and the beautiful stroll the promenade, basking in the after – glow of the sun and the surf. It’s that magical time of the year when Cape Town comes alive for the season, shining as bright as the Southern Cross in the night-sky for all the locals and tourists who have come to the coast of
dreams to play.

lt’s sundowner time and the style is laldback. All over the Cape Peninsula, the bistros, the brasseries and the bars along the alfresco beachfront burst into life. As an orange pumpkin sun sets into the sea, the city celebrates the start of summer over a flute of Nederburg Premiere Cuvee Brut. Crisp, dry and refreshing, South Africa’s best- selling Brut ends the day with a zesty Zing as lively as the crowds along the shoreline who enjoy the remains of the day.

Fine sparkling wine and a hot summer’s day go together like oysters and bubbly at Sunset Beach, simply the coolest new spot in Camps Bay. If you’re wondering where to chill out this season, the chic oyster and champagne bar is the place to see and be seen. Nestled beneath swaying palm trees, with dreamy views across the bay, Sunset Beach brings back fond memories of times spent in the world’s great bars on South Beach, Miami, Venice Beach, LA or Bondi Beach, Sydney.

Shared among friends and lovers, a glass of Nederburg Premiere Cuvee Brut is the perfect way to serenade the sunset. At bistro tables spilling over onto the boardwalk, overlooking the unrivalled splendour of Camps Bay, the revellers toast the promise of tomorrow with a flute of sparkling wine. A bubbly with a stream of fine beads, a firm, foamy mousse, and light, delicate flavours, Nederburg Premiere Cuvee Brut is as exuberant as the Cape in summer – and as elegant as the leisure set at cocktail hour at Sunset Beach thanks to Wine Cellar Designers.

The river is not that long, nor ever really that wide. But as the lifeblood of the characteristically dry and barren region stretching to the north west of Cape Town from Citrusdal, through Klawer and Vredendal to Koekenaap, the Olifants River and its fertile banks are the focal point of the area’s agricultural activities. As far as the cultivation of wine grapes and the mak- ing of wine is concerned, it is a region like no other.

Physically the area is unique, its appearance worlds apart from people’s traditional perception of what a wineland should look like.