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Black pepper and anise spiced steak tartare recipe Ingredients 100 g beef fillet, finely chopped 1 gherkin, finely chopped 10 capers, rinsed and drained, finely chopped 1 Small onion, finely chopped 3 ml Dijon mustard 5 drops Tabasco sauce 3 ml Worcestershire sauce 1 g Salt 2 g Black pepper, freshly cracked 1 g Aniseed,...

Smoked Mussels with Seaweed Mayonnaise  Mussels Ingredients 2 kg Cleaned mussels 250 ml Chardonnay 100 ml Water 100 ml Olive oil 1 Red onion thinly sliced Instructions Make sure all the mussels are clean. You can debeard them beforehand or do as I do and cut the beard off after I'd steamed the mussels. Bring...

"Tamatiebredie" or tomato stew is traditional South African comfort food at its best. Our interpretation uses a whole lamb neck cooked in the most flavoursome of stocks and a moreish tomato sauce.   Lamb Neck 2 Whole lamb necks cut in half length ways 2 g Salt 5 g Black pepper, roasted 2 g Anise seed, roasted...

This cheese soufflé makes for a decadent breakfast, light lunch or supper and is wonderful when served with the 2018 La Motte Méthode Cap Classique or 2020 La Motte Chardonnay. Cheese Soufflé Recipe  1 small onion, peeled, cut into wedges 285 ml full milk, plus extra for topping up if needed 1 bay leaf 50 g...

Salad of pea, broad bean, rocket and burrata Ingredients 10 g Wild rocket 10 g Peas 20 g Broad beans 1 Tbs Leeks thinly sliced 6 rounds of thinly sliced cucumbers 1/2 Burrata (Get it online from puglia.co.za) Lemon thinly sliced Fresh dill Lemon Dill Vinaigrette Ingredients 200 g Olive oil 50 g Lemon juice...

Enjoy the splendour of an old-fashioned rose garden amongst the romantic ambience of La Motte’s historic buildings when the estate opens its private rose garden for Garden Day on 11 October. The abundant garden with its classic design hosts 19 types of roses amongst which is the Hybrid Tea rose KORsebue, named after La Motte’s...

On special occasions, La Motte invites guests to enjoy its private rose garden amongst the romantic ambience of the estate's historic buildings. This old-fashioned garden with its classic design hosts 19 types of roses amongst which is the Hybrid Tea rose KORsebue, named after La Motte’s owner Hanneli Rupert-Koegelenberg. The Hanneli Rupert rose abundantly adorns the landscaped...

Try this delicious recipe for an Almond Cake from our Cape Winelands cuisine cookbook. In celebration of the splendour of our rose gardens in Spring as well as Garden Day on 11 October, we've decorated it with rose petals. What makes this cake irresistible, is that it also works with wine, especially a glass of...

We are delighted to have been acknowledged as honourees in two categories of the 2020 Wine & Food Tourism Awards - for Innovation and as WWF Conservation Leader. Innovation and personalisation have always been at the heart of the La Motte tourism experience, but 2020 demanded a new way of doing this. We had to...

One’s food heritage is quite personal. It really is our own food story, usually told and taught by your mother or grandmother and preserved in the way you feed your loved ones. But families are bigger than relatives and while for some, their own food story starts with a gogo or mama, many food stories come from...