I’ve long heard about beautiful Babylonstoren, an almost fabled oasis in South Africa that boasts not only beautiful rooms and sprawling, stunning gardens, but also one of the nicest rosés I’ve ever had (get your hands on a bottle for drinking in the sun this Spring).
From the outside, the rooms look thick-walled and cosy, but inside they’re light-filled and lofty with roll-top baths, four-poster white beds and glass double doors at the back leading to a private sun trap complete with wooden hammock and loungers, begging for a glass of wine or a cup of hot rooibos tea in the morning.
After clearing our heads and rehydrating after a long, horrible, dirty flight (but that’s another story), we headed to the farm’s dedicated wine-tasting bar to try the literal fruits of the farm’s labour.
Full of food, a few new freckles, one new hat (some of the best I’ve found in ages and all-made locally) and taking half a bottle of rosé with us, it was time to leave after just one night but honestly, we milked as much as we could out of our 24 hours at Babylonstoren and it was definitely enough to really fall in love with the place.
