La Motte Harvest Update: It is all about the grapes – or is it?

For a winemaker, harvest time is all about the quality of the grapes and the smooth sailing of cellar processes. Or is it?

“Of course, I will not have a job if the grapes and the cellar are not priority”, says La Motte Cellarmaster Edmund Terblanche. “But without being too sentimental about it, I also believe harvest time is about the people and the traditions of the winelands.”

The Team

La Motte enjoys adding some international flavour to its full-time farm and cellar teams for the duration of harvest. This year, a young producer from Burgundy and a cellar worker from Cairan in the Southern Rhone have joined the team. “I think we will have to brush up on our French, because their English is not going anywhere”, laughs Edmund.

Also joining the team is a Franschhoek Valley local from Dennegeur, the Rupert family farms housing initiative.


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