Much more than just good wine and food
The Harvest Festival @ Centurion is around the corner and promises to offer much more than just fun, good wine and food, but will also educate and raise money for several good causes.
The annual Harvest Festival @ Centurion is less than two weeks away and if you have not booked your tickets yet, you may miss the most important fun, wine, food and educational event on this year’s social calendar.
Leriba Hotel and Spa in Centurion will be hosting The Harvest Festival@Centurion (“Die Oesfees”) from 1 – 3 May 2015, which promises to be a wine festival with a difference. Not only is the popular event held at one of the most beautiful venues in the Tshwane metro with the hotel being situated on 13 hectares of indigenous bush boasting more than 200 indigenous plants species and a pristine river running through it, but celebrities and experts will also be offering interactive cooking demonstrations.
More than 40 of South Africa’s best wine farms will exhibit during the festival such as Middelvlei, KWV, JC le Roux, Antonij Rupert, Diemersdal, Dombeya, Ridgeback, Tokara, Van Loveren and Zevenwacht, to name but a few.
All wines can be tasted and bought at trade prices, while gourmet and fresh honest food will complement the day. Picnic baskets will be available from Leriba’s splendid Hemingway Restaurant.
The festival will kick off with Corporate Grape Stomping on 30 April 2015, which was already sold out two weeks after the announcement of the fun event. L’Avenir Wine Estate of Stellenbosch will assist guests in creating their own wine from grape to bottle.
During the event Skip Scheepers will auction off various prizes and hampers, of which all money will be donated to the Sanparks Honorary Rangers in support of anti-poaching initiatives.
During the festival on 1 – 3 May, donations can also be made to CANSA, the Endangered Wildlife Trust and Sanparks Honorary Rangers. Donations will be administered by Griesel Nel Auditors.
For the techno junkies, TomTom South Africa will offer a ‘first of it’s kind’ festival app. This mobi app will highlight all participating exhibitors and their locations on the premises. Additional features like “find my location”, directions, parking, main attraction points and live twitter feeds will also be available on the app.
Interactive cooking demonstrations will be presented by the South African Chef’s Association in conjunction with the Capital Hotel School, Prue Leith Chefs Academy and scholars from Hoërskool Zwartkops, Hoërskool Eldoraigne and Hoërskool Uitsig. Johan Badenhorst from Voetspore will share his food preparation secrets out of Africa.
Laser Adventures will provide laser clay pigeon shooting and war games for young and old.
Festival and restaurant times will be:
• Friday, 1 May and Saturday, 2 May 09h00 – 17h00 and
• Sunday, 3 May 09h00 – 16h00.
Parking is available adjacent to Leriba Hotel and Spa. Ulysses Tours and Safari’s will run complimentary shuttle services to and from the parking areas as well as from the Gautrain Station, Centurion.
Wine festival tickets are available at Computicket (www.computicket.co.za) at R130.00 per person and includes a wine glass [pensioners/children R90 pp]. Please remember that only a limited number of tickets will be available at the gates on festival days.
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