KWV Brandy Cellar This is the largest brandy distillery of its kind in the world under one roof. The cellar 1 accommodates 120 copper Woudberg pot stills for the distillation of the famed KWV range of brandies, such as KWV Ten and Twenty Year Old. In addition to producing its own range of brandies, the KWV supplies domestic wholesalers with over 50 per cent of the brandies sold on the local market.
The Worcester cellar is one of only two cellars on the Brandy Route where visitors on their South African holiday can watch coopers making barrels (the other being the Van Ryn cellar). The tour includes an audiovisual presentation and tours of the distillation room and maturation cellars, and ends with a brandy tasting. Olof Bergh Solera Brandy CellarSituated in the fertile Breede River Valley near Rawsonville, the Olof Bergh Cellar uses 22 Woudberg copper pot stills, similar to those used in the Cognac region of France, for the distillation of high-quality colombard wines. The cellar’s brandy is distilled exclusively from grapes grown in the surrounding region.
Interestingly, it is the only brandy cellar in South Africa to use the Solera method of maturation and blending. Initially developed by the sherry-makers in Spain, the brandy flows through layers of maturation barrels from the top to the bottom, depending on the degree of maturation desired. Du Toit's Kloof PassFor many years after the first farmers settled in the Berg River valley, the route across the Hawekwas and Klein Drakenstein mountains was nothing more than a game track. Although efforts to improve the pass were made as early as 1842, it was not until 1949 that Du Toit’s Kloof Pass was completed. By the 1980s, increasing traffic volumes on the busy N1 highway running through the pass necessitated the construction of the nearly 4 km-long Huguenot Tunnel.  Begun at the end of 1984 and opened in March 1988, the tunnel cuts 11 km off the distance travelled along the old route. Motorists now have the option of travelling along the old pass 4, which affords beautiful vistas of the Berg River valley, or taking the shorter route through the toll tunnel.
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