Itching for grape amusement? Kick off your shoes for some squishing and splatting at the Durbanville Wine Valley’s Feast of the Grape, a weekend of harvest fun hosted by 12 wine farms in the Durbanville Wine Valley. The festival takes place on 1 and 2 March 2014, at the picturesque D’Aria wine farm, surrounded by vineyards and nature, with plenty of seasonal wines to sip.

“This year’s festival will be very special as it brings all our member farms together on one wine farm, rather than each hosting its own separate harvest celebration”, says winemaker Etienne Louw, chairperson of the Durbanville Wine Valley Association who organises the event.  “With this we salute the region’s great harvest traditions of the past, bringing together the community to celebrate the season’s bounty.The farms coming together to take part in the grape frolics are: Altydgedacht, Bloemendal, D’Aria, De Grendel, Diemersdal, Durbanville Hills, Groot Phesantekraal, Hillcrest, Klein Roosboom, Meerendal, Nitida and Signal Gun.