A winery’s harvest season is its busiest, but it’s also a time to enjoy the unique flavors and customs of the season. The La Motte winemaking team welcomes you to attend the La Motte Harvest Experience and participate in the thrill of the harvest season in the Winelands after a lovely, cold and rainy winter and a relatively cool start to summer.
A tour of the vineyards and cellar is a great way to learn about the winemaking process, as well as a chance to sample some of the estate’s most recent vintages.
La Motte’s harvest also serves as an opportunity to express gratitude. When you make a reservation for the Harvest Experience, you’ll get a free tag to hang in the vines and share what you’re thankful for.
What you can expect from the La Motte Harvest Experience:
One of the estate’s enthusiastic and knowledgeable wine tasting ambassadors will guide you on this celebration of unique harvest traditions:
In the vineyard
Enjoy an introduction to the various varietals, harvest processes and the estate’s biologic farming practices. Spot the differences between the various varieties and taste the sweetness of the ripe berries. Write and hang your tag in the vineyard.
In the cellar
Experience the hand-sorting of grapes, crush, pump-overs and other cellar activities, concluded with a tasting of grape must (fermenting grape juice) from a fermentation tank.
In the tasting room
Sit down to a tasting of La Motte’s award-winning collection of wines – six wines from the La Motte Collection as well as the two wines from the estate’s renowned Pierneef Collection.
In the shade of the age-old oaks
Relax in the calm ambiance of the estate gardens and enjoy Chef Eric Bulpitt’s special Harvest Plate – with a glass of wine of course!
The La Motte Harvest Experience at R120 per person includes the vineyard and cellar tour as well as wine tasting. It takes about 90 minutes and happens hourly from Tuesdays to Sundays, between 10:00 and 15:00 from 1 February to the end of March.
A Harvest Plate is additional and optional and is available at R220 per person. This nostalgic platter of Wineland’s favourites includes a sausage roll, cured meats, boerenkaas, pickles, chutney, curried eggs, farm-baked bread with butter and hummus, grapes and crudités as well as the popular La Motte mosbolletjie!
The Harvest Experience takes place outside and in the spacious cellar and Tasting Room where social distancing, as well as all other Covid protocols, are in place.
Reservations are recommended and can be made with the La Motte Tasting Room: T +27 (0)21 876 8820 or E tasting@la-motte.co.za
La Motte’s renowned harvest-time mosbolletjies are also available at the La Motte Farm Shop for the duration of harvest. They sell like hotcakes, so to avoid disappointment, order yours in advance: T +27 (0)21 876 8840 or E farmshop@la-motte.co.za
