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Top Three South African Game Reserve Lodges for Wine Fans

Geoffrey Dean, 25.03.2022

These lodges offer not just wildlife and world-class cuisine but superlative wines, the vast majority of which are leading South African labels and whose vintages date back to the 1990s.

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Singita owns a 5,000ha/12,355 acre concession in the Sabi Sands game reserve adjoining the Kruger National Park. With traverse rights to another 10,000ha/24,710 acres, its game drives can encompass a quarter of the Sabi Sands, one of the richest sources of wildlife on the African continent. Legendary leopard sightings are commonplace, as are close encounters with the rest of the ‘Big Five’ game animals. More on the wildlife later but first the wines of Singita, which means ‘Place of Miracles’ in Shangaan.

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