Do we buy the wine, or do you?

You buy the wine — from your cellar, a merchant or an estate, with our sourcing help on request. We advise and pour; we are not a bar service and we make no claims to be one. The wine line on your invoice is exactly what the wine cost, with no markup.

What does the pairing add-on include?

A pairing designed against your menu, a sommelier pouring and introducing each wine at the table, and per-person pricing published on the rate card. It attaches to any dinner, tasting menu or chef's table booking — the wine itself is bought by you, at cost, with our sourcing help on request.

What happens at a villa tasting?

Six wines, ninety minutes, your terrace. A sommelier walks your group through South African regions and styles with glasses in hand — Constantia Sauvignon, Swartland Chenin, serious Pinotage, MCC. It works as a standalone evening, as the first act before a private chef dinner, or as the midweek highlight of a villa stay.

Can you stock our villa cellar for a long stay?

Yes — that is the Cellar & Consult product. We map your stay and your table's tastes, source from estates and merchants at your instruction, and build a drinking plan for the weeks you are here. It is scoped per cellar and quoted after a walkthrough, not sold off a rate card.

Which regions do you pour?

Small Cape producers first: Constantia, the Swartland, Stellenbosch, Franschhoek and the Cape South Coast. The point is value and story over trophy labels — though if your cellar holds trophies, we will pour those beautifully too. The pairing guide in our journal goes region by region.

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Wine Pairing & Sommelier Services in Cape Town

The category nobody in Cape Town publishes. We do.

fromR450–650pp

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Wine pairing and sommelier services for private dinners, tasting menus and villa stays across Cape Town and the Winelands: a per-person pairing add-on, hosted villa tastings, and cellar consults for longer stays. Every product carries a published price or a defined quoting process. from R450–650 pp per person.

Pairing, productised

Nobody else in this market publishes a rate card for sommelier work. Prices sit behind phone calls, and the service blurs into 'we can arrange wine'. We would rather show the number and let the product speak.

Who books this: dinner hosts who want the wine to carry its half of the evening, Winelands visitors staying in villas, and households stocking a cellar for a long stay. Each maps to one of the three products below.

Three products, published

The pairing add-on matches small Cape producers to any dinner or tasting menu, poured and introduced course by course. The sommelier-hosted villa tasting brings six wines and ninety minutes of guided tasting to your terrace.

The third product is the Cellar & Consult: villa cellar stocking, estate sourcing and a drinking plan for a long stay. It is scoped per cellar and quoted after a walkthrough — a cellar of two hundred bottles is not the same job as a wine fridge of twenty.

All three attach to any dinner, tasting menu, chef's table or villa stay we already cook. The pairing is per person; the tasting is per event; the consult is per cellar.

Sommelier wine pairing add-on

fromR450–650pp

Sommelier hosting

fromR3 500per event

Small producers over big labels

The philosophy is simple: Constantia Sauvignon, Swartland Chenin, Pinotage taken seriously, and MCC when there is something to celebrate. Small producers first, because the Cape's best value and best stories live there.

Our wine pairing guide walks through South African regions and styles for private dining — what to pour with snoek, why Chenin carries a Cape Malay table, and when Pinotage earns its place. It is the briefing document we use ourselves.

We are not loyal to any estate. No allocations to push, no sponsorships to serve. The pairing that lands on your table is the one the menu asked for, bought where it is best value.

Wine pairing at a Constantia private dinner, small-producer bottle beside a plated course

The compliance line, stated plainly

You buy the wine. We advise, source on request at your instruction, and pour. We are not a bar service and we make no claims to be one — the wine line on your invoice is what the wine cost, and nothing more.

This keeps the incentives clean. We have no margin in selling you a more expensive bottle, so the pairing advice is only ever about what the food needs.

A pairing calendar

Winter, June to August, is red season: Swartland Syrah and Bordeaux-style blends beside braai-under-cover and slow bredies. It is also when our winter rates apply to villa stays.

Harvest, February to April, is the time for vineyard dinners in Stellenbosch and Franschhoek — the vines are heavy and the estates are working. Ke Dezemba calls for MCC at sunset and crisp Chenin with seafood. The calendar shapes our pairing lists all year.

Season matters to the kitchen as much as the cellar, which is why pairing is designed against the actual menu for your date, not a standing list. A winter pairing and a harvest pairing for the same five courses will share almost no bottles.

Included, and quoted separately

Both columns, as with everything we sell:

Included

pairing design matched to your menu
a sommelier pouring and introducing at the table
sourcing on request, at your instruction

Quoted separately

the wine itself, at cost to you
glassware rental where the villa needs it
Zone 2–3 travel for Winelands events

Replacement-or-refundIf your chef can't make it, we replace them or refund you in full.

Fixed itemised quoteThe number you approve is the number you pay.

Published cancellation tiersFull refund 14+ days out; the ladder is public.

Backup-chef policyEvery confirmed event has a named backup chef.

In writing, not in vibes — read the full booking protection terms.

Questions, answered.

Anything else? One WhatsApp message is enough — reply within 1 hour, 08:00–20:00 sast.

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