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Guests can look forward to a fresh produce and lifestyle market as well as a brand new wine theatre with five uniquely entertaining productions and great prizes to be won during each session. The festival also provides a supervised kids area where the young ones can romp around in the fresh Boland air.
Music
Form 10h30 - 18h00 Non-stop entertainment with The Swingsetters, Bootleggers and Slow Jack.
Wine theatres
The five wine theatres at Festa
Restaurant on Kleinevalleij Estate include:
The People’s Chenin– At
this session the Chenin Blanc cultivar will be discussed by award winning
winemakers from the Mutual & Federal Agri Wellington Wine Route. Six wines will be tasted blind and each
patron has three votes to vote for their favourite wine; the wine with the most
votes will be proclaimed, The People’s Chenin. One lucky person will win a
mixed case of Chenin Blanc wines from the valley.
Mighty Blends (Rooi Reuse) - Winemakers compare and discuss the character of Rhône, Bordeaux en
Cape Blends during a wine tasting session.
One lucky person will go home with a case of red wines from the area.
Sedgwicks and Andy Watts – During this session a whisky tasting and presentation will be hosted
by master distiller, Andy Watts, well-renowned for his award winning Three
Ships Whisky and Bain’s Cape Mountain Whisky. A lucky patron will win two
bottles of Bain’s Cape Mountain Whisky.
Pinotage and Personalities – Legendary personalities from the valley will be ‘paired’ with Pinotage
while they entertain attendees with Wellington anecdotes and stories of
yesteryear. One lucky person will win a mixed case of Pinotage wines from the
valley.
Wellington Quest for the Best Top 10 – The Grand Finale to the wine theatre presentations
will be the tasting and discussion of the winners of this year’s Wellington Quest for the Best top 10 wines,
presented by the winning winemakers. Quest
for the Best is a competition initiated for Wellington by Wellington, showcasing
the overall quality and diversity of Wine of Origin Wellington. One lucky
person will win a case of the top 10 winning wines.
Give-aways
During the day’s festivities
several lucky draws will take place with fantastic prizes
to be won. Prizes include hampers from
the lifestyle market, wines from the valley, restaurant vouchers, accommodation,
Zipline vouchers, tickets to the Tuin van
Digtersfeesand many more.
Come celebrate Wellington’s feat
and experience why it was announced Western Cape Kwêla Dorp van die Jaar by sampling the best this Boland town has to offer.
Tickets are available at Computicket at R150 per person and include a glass, free tasting and entry to the wine theatres. Children under the age of 17 enter for free. Festivities start at 10h00 and will continue till 18h00 – thereafter the party moves to the adjacent Festa.
For more information and the full programme visit http://wellington.co.za/forkcork/ contact 021 864 1378.