Building up to the Spier Secret festival, Spier Wine Estate will be hosting a series of intimate secret dinners with selected industry leaders in various locations across Cape Town. Focusing on community and sustainable and ethical food production, hosts will be creating unforgettable experiences in which they will share their knowledge, skills and ultimately, their table with you.
Book now to avoid disappointment.
Jade de Waal: Food Jams
Food Jam with Jade’s secret friends (secret lovers, super heroes and imaginary friends).
Jade is a saxophonist with a big heart, a love of good food and a passion for feeding people. Growing up in a family that celebrated life through food she developed a understanding of the role that food plays in bringing people together. She started Food Jams in 2010 based on music and improvisation.
See some of Jade’s previous Food Jams here: http://foodjams.co.za.
Date: 13 August
Where: Cape Town CBD
Time: 19:00
Cost: R400
Bookings: https://www.webtickets.co.za/performance.aspx?itemid=1456917401
Loubie Rusch: Wild Food Dinner
Share with Loubie Rusch in discovering some indigenous culinary flavours, on an experiential evening created in collaboration with some of Cape Town’s exciting visual creatives.
Loubie has for some time now been exploring cooking with indigenous ingredients, foraging sustainably for leaves, buds, berries and fruits around greater Cape Town. She encourages individuals and communities to start growing some of these local foods, and shares her knowledge at various dinners, events and talks where she also offers samples of her KOS creations for purchase.
Date: 27 Aug 2015
Where: Cape Town CBD
Time: 19:00
Cost: R400
Bookings: https://www.webtickets.co.za/performance.aspx?itemid=1457175684
Anél Potgieter: Ouma se Kos
Themed Ouma se Kos, food and travel writer of Anél Potgieter invites you to come and sit at her table.
Her blog lifeisazoobiscuit was announced the winner of the 2014 and 2013 Eat Out Food Blog of the Year Award. She also writes a weekly food column for Rapport and is a regular face on SABC3’s breakfast show, Expresso.
Date: 19 Sep 2015
Where: Northern Suburbs, Cape Town
Time: 19:00
Cost: R400
Bookings: SOLD OUT
Roushanna Gray: Veld and Sea inspired lunch
Wild foods innovator and avid forager – Roushanna Gray – invites you to join her for a Veld and Sea inspired lunch.
Roushanna lives and works at the Good Hope Gardens Nursery in Cape Point. She teaches adults and children about indigenous edible foods and caters for pop-up events. Having been brought up with an eclectic mix of Cape Malay cooking, Jewish and Christian traditional feasts, and Steiner school harvest festivals, she has an ever-growing passion and love for food. Inspired by the local edible indigenous plant availability, she has been experimenting with the exciting flavours and diversity of Fynbos for the past eight years.
Date: 20 Sep 2015
Where: Cape Point, Cape Town
Time: 19:00
Cost: R400
Bookings: https://www.webtickets.co.za/performance.aspx?itemid=1457116111
Richard Bosman: Bacon and Wine Pairing
Join the mastermind behind Bacon on Bree – Richard Bosman – for a bacon and wine pairing dinner!
Born in South Africa and raised in Cape Town, Richard developed a love of food at an early age but only really started cooking when he left home. Cooking was just a hobby as he first completed an honors degree in Information Systems and then pursued a career in Retail, initially with Marks & Spencer and subsequently Woolworths. Deciding to take the plunge in 2004 and enter the hospitality world, Richard bought a delicatessen in Hermanus and spent five years creating a host of different menus, products and selling a range of imported cured meats.
Date: 24 Sep 2015
Where: Cape Town CBD
Time: 19:00
Cost: R400
Bookings: https://www.webtickets.co.za/performance.aspx?itemid=1457116269
Meghan Werner: Fermentation Dinner
Meghan runs Theonista Products, a small artisan food and beverage company located in Woodstock, with a focus on creating unique flavours using traditional fermentation techniques and consciously-sourced ingredients. Meghan came to Cape Town from Seattle via Lesotho as part of her former career in public health. While she had absolutely no intention of starting a business when she arrived in South Africa, her passion for fermentation and honest food took on a life of its own and she’s thrilled to be part of the growing fermentation and farm-to-table food movement.
Date: 24 Sep 2015
Where: Observatory, Cape Town
Time: 19:00
Cost: R400
Bookings: https://www.webtickets.co.za/performance.aspx?itemid=1457175737
Secret Food and Wine Conference
The Spier Secret Festival conference returns to Spier wine farm on Friday 30 October 2015: a celebration of creative approaches to food and wine making, craftsmanship and collaboration. Speakers include cheese-maker Luke Williams, foraging experts Zayaan Khan and Loubie Rusch, and the London-based duo behind arts/architecture practice Something & Son, Paul Smyth and Andy Merritt.
The ticket includes brunch, a wine tasting with Spier’s Cellar Master Frans Smit, a late lunch, and a goodie bag.
Date: 30 Oct 2015
Where: Spier Wine Farm
Time: 8:30
Cost: R1100
Bookings: https://www.webtickets.co.za/performance.aspx?itemid=1456970831
Secret Market
The annual Spier Secret Market on Saturday, 31 October, showcases the full range of Spier’s wines and hosts some of the region’s best small producers, bakers, street food vendors, food trucks and restaurants. This includes plenty of farm-style entertainment for children.
Date: 31 Oct 2015
Where: Spier Wine Farm
Time: 9:30
Cost: Free
For more information, visit our website at http://spiersecret.co.za/.
