South African producers using the classic French method of champagne-making decided to call their sparkling wines Méthode Cap Classique (MCC). The Franschhoek Valley, where French Huguenots settled in the late 17th century, is home to roughly a quarter of the Cape’s MCC producers. The Franschoek Cap Classique Route groups together 18 MCC producers from Backsberg Estate Cellar on the Klapmuts-Simondium road to Morena on the Franschhoek Pass. You won’t be able to tackle them all in one day, so make a weekend of it, and enlist the help of a driver to get you safely from one farm to the next.
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