On 20 March, our American friends celebrate National Ravioli Day , but we also have a tradition of ravioli in the Cape Winelands! Persian-Arabian pasta recipes were also known in Spain, but it was the Italians who experimented with the recipes and exported the use of pasta to France. The Italian cooks started to fold...

The performance of La Motte Wine Estate and the Franschhoek Tourism Association in the annual Cape Winelands District Municipality Mayoral Tourism Awards, again confirmed the Franschhoek Valley’s status as one of the Winelands’ choice tourism destinations. La Motte’s internationally acknowledged tourism offering was awarded as Wine Tourism Destination of the Year – repeating its performance...

Celebrating its recent appointment as the Drinks International Wine Tourism Awards Best Food and Wine Matching Experience for 2015, La Motte Wine Estate’s Pierneef à La Motte Restaurant presents a late summer menu reflecting the flavours and abundance of summer in the Winelands. Few things say summer more than fruit. And with Cape Winelands Cuisine...

Exhibition dates: 26 October to 26 November 2013 With its rich French Huguenot and Cape Dutch history and close association with conservation of heritage, La Motte participated in the third annual Franschhoek Art in Clay Festival with an exhibition focusing on the history of 18th and early 19th century tableware used at the Cape, with specific reference to...

Exhibition dates: 27 October – 16 November 2012 With the second Franschhoek Art in Clay Festival, La Motte celebrated how the most basic of materials – clay and water – can be transformed by skill and fire to create varied and interesting objects, from artworks to quality domestic pieces. The La Motte Museum hosted the exhibition...

Each year the Franschhoek Valley celebrates the Art in Clay festival. Within the valley La Motte Museum, The Gallery at Grande Provence, The Ceramic Gallery, Art in the Yard, EBONY, IS Art and Kim Donaldson Gallery are participating showing some exquisite ceramics from various South African potters and ceramists. The Setting – contemporary ceramic tableware on display in the...

Iris, 1985Oil paint on canvas, 193 x 101cm (each) – TriptychRupert Art Foundation, Stellenbosch Andrew Verster was born in Johannesburg and studied design at the Camberwell College of Art in London, he received an Art Teacher’s Diploma in 1960 from Reading University. He is a painter of figures, landscapes, portraits, still life, beach scenes and...

North Coast, 1985Acrylic paint on canvas, 152 x 152cmRupert Art Foundation, Stellenbosch Helmut Starcke was born in Offenbach, West Germany, but resides in South Africa since 1958. Starcke is a self-taught painter of land-and seascapes, plants and interiors. He first worked in oil then tempera and in acrylic on canvas which are generally of monumental...

Landscape Namibia, 1982Oil on canvas, 100 x 115 cmRembrandt van Rijn Art Foundation, Stellenbosch Josua Nell was born in Keetmanshoop, Namibia. He studied art at Rhodes University and is regarded as an extremely versatile artist – painting and sculpting in different media with a wide-range of subject matter. He is most known for his large...

The Violet RampartMixed media on paper, 250 x 200cmRupert Art Foundation, Stellenbosch Karel Anthony Nel was born in 1955 in Pietermaritzburg. He studied at the University of the Witwatersrand and in London. He is a graphic artist and draws in graphite, conté, crayon, charcoal, pastel and sprayed pigment on bonded fibre fabric. Highly regarded for...