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La Motte: Tour, Talk and Taste the Harvest
Celebrating the most important time of year on a wine farm, we invite guests to participate in the excitement and energy of the 2016 harvest. Day-time Harvest Tour and Tasting, starting on Tuesday, 26 January for the duration of the harvest Tour, Taste and Talk the Harvest Evening, on Thursday, 11 February Day-time Harvest Tasting...
La Motte and Pierneef – the association
La Motte’s association with the art of Jacob Hendrik Pierneef dates back to early 2002, with the creation of the estate’s premium wine, the Pierneef Collection. Ever since, Pierneef’s love for that which is truly South African, as well as his passion for his art are echoed in more than just the name of this...
A Taste of French Flair!
Pastry chefs traditionally love using meringue when creating their delicate sweet bakes. In the Cape Winelands, meringues are often used as the sweet and airy ingredient in Macaroons and Floating Islands and has become a part of our culinary heritage. The art of making meringue probably came to the Cape with the French Huguenots, as...
Festive plum-and-cherry tart
Shortly after Van Riebeeck’s landing, large numbers of fruit trees were planted and soon housewives at the Cape became well known for their fruit tarts delicately layered with seasonal fruit on top of a pastry base. After the settlement of the French Huguenots, fruit trees were in abundance in the then Olifantshoek area (today, the...
Festive Food from the Cape Winelands
The Festive Season is synonymous with family, friends, food and wine. To help you make the most of this special time of year, the Pierneef à La Motte team has designed a three course menu with traditional recipes from the Cape Winelands, perfect for your Festive Table. From the freshest seafood and fennel salad, to...
Grilled Cape seafood with fennel-and-lime salad
Seafood was regularly collected by the indigenous people and when the first European pioneers arrived at the Cape, they too were fortunate in being able to catch an abundance of fish in the seas along the Cape coast. Bountiful catches of steenbras, kingklip, harder (mullet), elf (shad), mackerel and snoek were recorded by Jan van...
Ginger-and-cumin-glazed whole roast duck
In the days of the old Cape, fowl of any shape and size was popular on the menu, from Muscovy duck to guinea fowl, partridge and wild peacock. While chicken is the most popular bird for cooking today, duck offers that something extra for a special occasion. The ideal meat for sweet flavours and scented...
Festive Shopping
Farm-style shopping is redefined in the quaint La Motte Farm Shop with its wonderful variety of take-home reminders of the estate. Artisan farm-baked breads, a tempting array of confectionery from the Pierneef à La Motte pastry kitchen, light meals as well as farm produce such as seasonal vegetables, fynbos, disas and lavendine grown on the...
La Motte: 2016 Great Wine Capitals Best of Wine Tourism Winner for Wine Tourism Service
The internationally recognised Wine Tourism Experience offer by La Motte has received further acknowledgement during the announcement of the 2016 results of the annual Great Wine Capitals of the World Best of Wine Tourism Competition in Bilbao, Spain. La Motte won the South African category for Wine Tourism Service for its excellence in the cellar...
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