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Autumn in the Franschhoek Valley is balmy and beautiful. It is the perfect season to enjoy all that is special about Winelands living. Relax with your loved ones over a lazy lunch, make the most of the fresh farm air or get all arty. Young or old, there is something special for everyone to enjoy....

For me the 2020 Pierneef Sauvignon Blanc brings both increased symmetry and synergy to this well-established partnership between memorable wine and extraordinary artistic talent: The latest vintage in the Pierneef Collection presents increased layers of flavour, which well complement the diverse components and shady setting of the artist’s  linocut and  the timelessness of the farmstead.  Southern...

The writer, teacher and human rights activist, Susan Sontag (1933-2004) wrote in her essay Regarding the Pain of Others (2003) that “remembering is an ethical act” and ponders whether the moral obligation of acknowledging others’ suffering, can be facilitated through the witnessing thereof. When art evokes sympathy in a viewer, it often succeeds in directing...

Salads have found a new lease on life. No longer are they only iceberg lettuce tossed with tomato and cucumber! No, today's salads contain anything from raw to cooked, vegetable to fruit, meat, dairy and lovely textures in the form of croutons or nuts. With their delicious complexity of flavours, salads have their own demands when...

Coq au vin pie The iconic French chicken stew, coq au vin, is a delightful chicken dish with red wine, mushrooms and onions. Inspired by the 2018 La Motte Millennium, The Food Fox, Ilse van der Merwe turned this traditional French stew into a scrumptious (boneless) pie with a royal homemade sour cream pie crust. ...

GRAPE FOCACCIA Ingredients Dough mix 290 g  Bread Flour 290 g Cake flour 15 g Salt 400 g Water 10 g Instant yeast 20 g Olive oil 1 tsp Chopped rosemary Grape wine mix 120 g red grapes 70 g Sugar 100 ml Red wine Toppings 150 g Grapes Flaked salt Olive oil Rosemary leaves Method...

  Makes 14 - 16 dumplings Ingredients 2 dried shiitake mushrooms, soaked in hot water for 30 minutes 200 g coarsely chopped pork loin or skinless belly (or substitute with pork mince) 1 Tbsp finely chopped fresh ginger 1 spring onion, the white part, thinly sliced 1 Tbsp soy sauce 1 Tbsp rice wine (or...

Marianne Podlashuc. Three Boys. 1960. Oil on board. Collection: Rupert Art Foundation, Stellenbosch View this work as part of the Celebrating the Love of Art Exhibition in the La Motte Museum until 25 July 2021.  Marianne Podlashuc was born in Holland in 1932, where she lived through the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands during the Second World...

Irma Stern. The Eternal Child. 1916. Oil on board. Collection: Rupert Art Foundation, Stellenbosch View this work as part of the Celebrating the Love of Art Exhibition in the La Motte Museum until 25 July 2021.  Irma Stern painted The Eternal Child (Das Ewige Kind) in 1916. The picture is of a little girl wearing...

La Motte invites art-lovers to visit Celebrating the love of Art – a personal selection by Hanneli Rupert-Koegelenberg, an exhibition of rare and important artworks from both owner and family collections. The works on show have been specially selected and allow insight into the family's well-documented love for art. Celebrating the love of Art is on exhibition in the La...