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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

An exhibition aimed at highlighting the value of contributions by South African female artists during the past fifty years was opened in the La Motte Museum recently. Assessing the value of contributions by South African female artists and the influence of their work on the development of South African art has, until now, received little...

Reaffirming Franschhoek-based La Motte wine estate’s status as a producer of fine wines, its 2013 Pierneef Syrah Viognier has collected the 2015 Cathay Pacific Hong Kong International Wine and Spirit Competition’s trophy for Best South African Wine. The competition results were announced at the Hong Kong International Wine and Spirit Fair on Thursday, 5 November....

Bringing together food, wine and family, Pierneef à La Motte Restaurant, is now adding another dimension to the estate’s internationally acknowledged food and wine experience – the Sunday Family Lunch. In keeping with the sentiment of family get-togethers and in celebration of the tradition of sharing, the Sunday Family Lunch will be served family-style and...