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Saturday, 16 November: Movie night at Spier
OKTOBER 07, 2013 | Join us for a food movie night at the Spier lawns, with a themed picnic while watching one of the greatest food and wine movies of all time – Like Water for Chocolate (Como agua para chocolate). Your picnic basket will include some of the sensational meals eaten in the film and a bottle of Spier wine.
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Spier Eerste River Canoe Challenge
AUGUST 27, 2013 | The Stellenbosch Heritage Project hosts an annual festival of sporting events, and this is the first year that Spier will be sponsoring the Canoe Challenge. The Maties Canoe Club’s annual Eerste River Canoe Challenge will start at Hangbrug and finish at Spier Wine Farm on Heritage Day starting at 10:00. This dash down the river takes just under one hour and passes the River Festival site in Die Laan. The canoeing fraternity regards this stretch of river as the most exciting in the Western Cape. Important information:Date: 24 September 2013Time: Starts 10am and takes just less than one hourStarts at: HangbrugFinishes at: Spier Wine Farm.Prize-giving: Stellenbosch Heritage Day Festival in Die Laan, where there will also be live music, food stalls, craft stalls, games and Spier wine for sale.Enquiries: Owen Gandar
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Saturday, 21 September: 21 Gables Heritage Dinner
AUGUST 15, 2013 | Celebrate Heritage Day in Spier Wine Farm’s beautiful Old Wine Cellar with a delicious, traditional Cape Dutch dinner. Executive Chef Lorianne Heyns will prepare some of South Africa’s favourite dishes including spicy potato samosas, rooibos and cinnamon braised lamb pot pie and a delectable array of malva pudding, sago and milktart for dessert.One of South Africa’s oldest wine farms in South Africa, Spier has a rich wine heritage and our top range is named after the 21 Cape Dutch gables that can be found across the farm.
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Farmer Angus’ new favourite farm photo
AUGUST 14, 2013 | My old school buddy, мальчик Andersson, was down from the high country over the weekend and he got this shot of our hens eating non GMO pasture (their laying mash is also non GMO), free to range where they like (unlike all other “free range” operations), and for a change a little snow on the mountains.
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Finesse maak ‘n Kaapse draai!
AUGUST 13, 2013 | Dis weer tyd vir Finesse en Faith Fund se omgeedag om 17 Augustus, en daar is steeds kaartjies vir die fondsinsameling beskikbaar.
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Chenin Blanc & Dim Sum Girls’ Night Out
AUGUST 12, 2013 | We celebrated Women’s day with a chenin blanc and dim sum evening at Spier. The delectable dishes paired perfectly with the fresh and fruity Spier Signature Chenin Blanc and rich and ripe 21 Gables Chenin Blanc. Well-known for her dim sum pop-ups, Yang Zhao from Beijing Opera prepared dinner and showed guests how to make their own potstickers at home.Photo’s by Retha Ferguson.
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