Zorgvliet for all your function needs.

Functions

Come to Zorgvliet Wine estate and let us make your special occasions extra special.  We pride ourselves on customizing every event to suit the needs and tastes of the individual.

We offer a wide variety of function venues and styles to choose from, so here at Zorgvliet you will find exactly what you are looking for. From end of year braai’s and spit braai's to wonderfully relaxing picnics, baby showers and kitchen teas.  For the more formal occasions, we offer buffets, wine pairings, bowl food and set menus for a dinner and dancing occasion or a sit down lunch at our exquisite Banhoek and Oakroom venues.   And for the adventurous we have a mountain braai venue with a spectacular view. Zorgvliet has a wood oven restaurant and provides intimate lunches with their ever changing menu.

Zorgvliet wines, special experiences for special people.

The Zorgvliet picnic area is a piece of heaven fallen from the sky where you can be lost in your dreams, inhale the fresh air of the Banhoek Valley and bask in the warm sunshine. Just bring a blanket and pick your spot under the shade of the Oak Trees and let the greenery of the Zorgvliet picnic area envelope you.

At the Zorgvliet picnic area, you and your family can enjoy the spectacular views of the surrounding mountains and vineyards. The vineyards all have a different shade of green according to the types of cultivar. They are a perfect backdrop to the historic white washed Cape Dutch architecture of Zorgvliet Wine Estate's buildings.

Select the picnic basket of your choice from the picnic basket menu or put together your own picnic from our deli and experience a culinary journey that will excite your taste buds. Zorgvliet picnic area is a resident of the Zorgvliet Wine Estate which produces award winning wines in a modern cellar equipped with state of the art technology. Choose a Zorgvliet wine that pairs best with your selected picnic basket.

The Zorgvliet picnic area has ample space for your kids to run around and play games. Alternatively they can play on the jungle gym situated next to the Zorgvliet picnic area.

Experience the hospitality of the winelands through the Zorgvliet picnic area and create memorable times.

Trading hours:

(Weather Permitting)

Wed-Sun 09:00-17:00

Conferences

ZORGVLIET CONFERENCE PACKAGES

 

Zorgvliet wine estate boasts a comfortable and spacious conference venue.  With its vineyard views, friendly staff and professional set up, you won’t even feel like you’re working.

 

FULL DAY CONFERENCE PACKAGE

     Tea, coffee upon arrival

     Mid-morning tea, coffee and treats

     Lunch

     Mid-afternoon tea, coffee and treats

     Full Day Venue Hire (8:00 – 17:00)

     Standard conferencing equipment including data projector, screen, flipchart and markers, notepads, pens, mints and water

 

HALF DAY CONFERENCE PACKAGE

     Tea, coffee upon arrival

     Mid-morning tea, coffee and treats

     Lunch

     Half Day Venue Hire (8:00 – 12:30)

     Standard conferencing equipment including data projector, screen, flipchart and markers, notepads, pens, mints and water

 

TAILOR MADE 24HOUR PACKAGES AVAILABLE ON REQUEST

All Packages Exclude:

     Beverages during conference meals

     Dietary requirements surcharge of R75 per person

     Halaal meals (price on request)

     Transport to and from Lodges to Conference Facility

     Use of additional equipment:

     PA System (2 x Speakers)

     PA System (4 x Speakers)

     Television

     DVD/Video

     Podium

     Lapel Microphone

     Roving Microphone

     Standard Microphone

     A/V Technician

 

 

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Zorgvliet Mountain Braai Experiance!

Today we take a look at our Zorgvliet Mountain Braai Facility

Here nestled in the mountains, Zorgvliet offers a truly one of a kind braai experience overlooking the Vineyards and Mountains, where u truly feel at one with nature.

Lets Take a closer look at our Braai menu.

 

We are very Flexible on this menu and can change anything at request.

 

Braai menu

Freshly baked farm style bread with herbed butter, sweet preserve and savoury preserves

Karoo Lamb Chops in our Chefs secret Basting

 

Sweet Chilli OR Sweet & Sour Chicken Kebabs

Sticky Chicken Drumsticks

Apricot, Garlic and Parsley Butter Kingklip OR Snoek
Warm Garlic and Parsley Butter Baby Potatoes
Deconstructed Greek salad including olives, Danish Feta, cherry tomato, cucumbers, sweet peppers, baby salad leaves and red onions

 

Something sweet

Baked Cheese Cake and Mini Chocolate Tarts

 

Add sides

Butternut and feta salad with rocket and pumpkin seeds
Red Cabbage, Carrot and Raisin salad with Sweet and Tangy Vinaigrette 
Oven Roasted Vegetables with herb butter
Corn on the Cob with sundried tomato butter 

 

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Canapes, Starters, Mains and Desserts

Here is a look at our function menu

Bruschetta with:

*roast beef and caramelized onion with balsamic reduction

*tomato jam, mozzarella and basil pesto

*smoked salmon and cream cheese and dill

*caramelized onion, brie and rocket

*Tikka chicken kebabs with coriander crème fraiche

*Butternut soup shots with cream cheese quenelles

*Pea soup shots with bacon chips

*Tempura prawns with sweet chilli sauce

*Mozzarella stuffed risotto balls

*Spring rolls (chicken or vegetable) with sweet chilli sauce

*Avocado, cream cheese and tomato tartlet

*Deep fried spicy beef wontons with ginger

*Tomato, basil and mozzarella skewers with pesto drizzle

*Bacon wrapped chicken skewers with avocado

*Chicken cream cheese, pepperdews and basil tartlet

*Beef samosas with sweet chutney 

Starters:

*Chicken and mango salad with spicy salsa and baby leaves

*Spinach, butternut and homemade ricotta ravioli served in a creamy blue cheese sauce*

   (*can be replaced with goats cheese)

*Deep fried kataffi goats cheese caprese salad

*Salmon fishcakes with avocado puree and peppadew potato rosti

*Parma and caramelised onion tart with goats cheese kataffi

*Smoked porkbelly, applesauce and pommes pure

*Farmstyle butternut soup with pecorino and potato herbed rosti

 

Mains:

*200g marinated fillet steak served with shimegi mushrooms, edemame beans, roasted garlic puree and dauphinoise

  potatoes topped with pecorino.

*200g fresh kingklip covered in our secret spices, plated on crispy baby potatoes marinated in coriander butter, garnished

 with cherry tomato salsa and a deep fried tempura prawn

*200g kudu fillet set on butternut mash, served with a green bean salad and ostrich croquet, topped with homemade

  caramelized onions.

*Spiced lamb rack, pommes puree, baby beets and green beans and homemade red wine jus

*Chicken breast, cherry tomato, mange tout on fondant potatoes (served with a creamy bacon sauce)

*Basil pesto, pecorino and sundried tomato pasta

*Pan fried kingklip, prawn, ginger, garlic and coriander basmati rice with tomato salsa

*Caramelised onion, wine lands camembert and fresh herbed quiche

*Creamy mushroom risotto topped with deep fried shimeji mushrooms

Dessert:

*Cheese platter, with a selection of cheeses, preserves and artisan bread

*Malva pudding with caramel, custard and biscuit crumbs

*Dark chocolate ganache tart with mint and berry garnish

*Orange infused crème brulee with gooseberry and orange compote

*White chocolate and cardamom baked cheesecake with berry coulis

*Fresh fruit tartlets with custard and vanilla ice-cream

*Trio of ice-cream:

  vanilla bean, dark chocolate and espresso

Just Some of Our Amazing Foods

Chees Cake made out of Just Various Cheeses and Fruits.

Seared Springbok Loin.

Beef Fillet with a Red wine and Mushroom Jus.

Mini Burger Canapés

Stuffed mini Jacket Potato Canapés

White Wine and Mushroom Risotto

These are just a few of our wide variety of dishes, all prepared to specifications and with Love!

 

Zorgvliet Wines Wine Tasting and Function Venue

 

 

Zorgvliet Wine Estate can be the perfect venue for you, if you want to add a touch of magic and style to your big day.

Nestled in the Banhoek Valley near Stellenbosch, you will be amazed at the breathtakingly spectacular views of the

Simonsberg Mountains and vineyards, and your wedding pictures will afford you absolutely classic memories.

Zorgvliet Wine Estate offers a variety of options; we have a very elegant wedding venue (The Oak room) for your

reception and a chapel for you ceremony. We also have our country lodge’s lounge area (The Banhoek room) that can be

used for pre drinks. For the guests who would like to stay over we have a country lodge on the premises walking

distance from the venue. For pre or post wedding activities your guests can enjoy our wonderful picnic and deli area and

a country styled restaurant with a French twist for a more formal dinning experience. We also have a cellar that you can

tour by appointment or visit our wine tasting and savour the taste of Zorgvliet.

Zorgvliet Wine estate is a secure estate, with a 24 hour security service and secure parking area’s for your guests

 

 

Catering

 

• Catering can be done in house by Zorgvliet or own caterers can be brought in at an

additional kitchen hire.

 

• Zorgvliet wine estate will nominate outside caterers at its sole discretion.

• If you are making use of an outside caterer, you will be obliged to liaise with the

Zorgvliet venue manager and there will be a kitchen venue hire of R5000.00 to use the

kitchen space.

 

• Our in house caterers can provide you with the below options.

• Please note that these are food prices only and that service staff are not included in these

prices.

 

• Service staff can be organized by Zorgvliet.

 

 DINING

Zorgvliet Picnic and Wood oven Restaurant

 

• The Zorgvliet picnic area and Wood oven restaurant are situated in the most picturesque setting – a piece of

heaven fallen from the sky where you can be lost in your dreams, inhale the fresh air of the Banhoek Valley and

bask in the warm sunshine.

 

• At the Zorgvliet picnic area and Wood oven restaurant, you and your family can enjoy the spectacular views of

the surrounding mountains and vineyards. The vineyards all have a different shade of green according to the

types of cultivar. They are a perfect backdrop to the historic white washed Cape Dutch architecture of

Zorgvliet Wine Estate’s buildings. Select the picnic basket of your choice from the picnic basket menu offered,

or select from our gourmet lunch menu and experience a culinary journey that will excite your taste buds.

 

• The Zorgvliet picnic area and Wood oven restaurant has ample space for your kids to run around and play

games. Alternatively, they can play on the jungle gym situated next to the Zorgvliet picnic area. Experience the

hospitality of the wine lands through Zorgvliet and create memorable times.
 Here's a link to out site: www.zorgvlietwines.com

Here's some more of our history

1957:      T8128 17.6.1957 68 morgen 6712 sq.ft

                   From: Gilbert Norrie Grant

                   To: Joy Dorothea Bennett (born Coates 21.2.1912)

                   Formally Heesom

 

 

2000:      From: Joy Dorothea Bennett (Formally Heesom)

                   To: Rymer

 

Rymer

Originally from the Transvaal and was involved in Banking. He purchased neighboring farms and build the current wine cellar and conference facilities on the silvermyn land. He also started with the restoration of the old Herenhuis on Zorgvliet.  He planted 40ha of vineyard on the fruit farm of 86ha.

2002:      From: Rymer

                   To: Johannes van der Merwe

 

Johannes van der Merwe

Zorgvliet, the centuries old wine estate outside Stellebosch, was yesterday sold by public auction to Johannes van der Merwe for R31 Million.

The estate comprises three prime properties: Le Pommier, and 80 seater restaurant; Zorgvliet itself, which comprises a three-storey office and technical centre, with wine cellars and a manor house dating back to 1860; Spring grove, a family home and winery.

 

The estate of 86ha has 40ha under vines and its plantings include Cabernet Sauvignon, Shiraz, Petit Verdot, Cabernet Franc, Sauvignon Blanc and Merlot grapes.  Van der Merwe, who is believed to have stake in the Presidents Steyn gold mine and a game farm in the Vaalwater, signed a cheque for the R3.1 Million deposit at the fall of the hammer. He said he had bid against dollars and pounds and was pleased that such assets could remain in South African hands.  He hoped to do a responsible job to build up the business, he said.  He was full of praise for former owner Peter Rhymer, who had built up the business when he changed from fruit farming and who left considerable infrastructure.  Van der Merwe would concentrate on the niche sector for exclusive quality wines in the export market and continue Rymers work.  Johannes van der Merwe completed restoration of Herenhuis and transformed it into a work of beauty. Also had great success in making Zorgvliet a wine farm with the highest quality of wines.

 

The Silver Myn Story

Although not sure when the first vines were planted on Zorgvliet the present day Chapel was indicated as the wine cellar in the opgaaf of Johannes Muller in 1732, he also left some 12 leagers of wine.

One of the farms making up the present day Zorgvliet Wine Estate has been named after a dubious mining project; Silver Myn has also been adopted as the niche label (Silver Myn) for unconventional products such as Petit Verdot, Cabernet Franc, Pinot Noir and Viognier.

For the Dutch East India Company, whose interests were mercantile rather than colonial, it was important to exploit whatever resources it had to offer. Simon van der Stel made his famous expedition to Namaqualand in search of copper in 1685. Attempts to find silver met with less success so there was great excitement in 1740 when Frans Diederik Muller claimed to have discovered silver at the Simonsberg. By 1743 Muller had persuaded the authorities to grant him mining rights. With the backing of a reputable businessman, Olaf de Wet a company the Octroojeerde Society der Mynwerken aan de Simonsberg was formed. Muller was appointed Bergmeester (master miner) and work began in 1743 with Company soldiers, sailors and some slaves. Long tunnels were built into the side of the mountain at two levels and shafts of 50-100 feet deep were sunk to connect them. For five years Muller continued to demand more labor and funds in order to extract the rich deposits that lay ahead – with promise of silver, later copper and even gold! Eventually the Directors became suspicious and sent a sample of ore to Amsterdam for analyses. Muller was exposed and banished to Batavia. Mining seized but the mine remains intact.

 Embarrassed, the authorities abandoned the silver mine but the site remains intact.   Close by on the farm Goede Hoop, are ruins of a number of structures that might have been part of the mining operation.

Was this a hoax, the first white collar crime in South Africa or are there silver and gold deposits to be found in the belly of the Simonsberg?

 

 

 

 

Banhoek story

It is perhaps not surprising that a place such as The Banhoek Valley should have its own mysteries. The valley has deep historical association with now only Holland and France, but with Britain and Germany and in more recent times, with the United States, particularly California.

 

The original small nomadic Hottentots population had withdrawn into the northern mountains when the White man came to live in the valley; the pastoralist Black tribes, moving south down Africa, were still far away; and the Colored peoples of mixed blood, who were later to contribute so much to the development of Cape agriculture, had not yet evolved in great numbers.  The valley was, in face, a cradle for White and the generations who settled and lived there down the years were in an important way molded in character by their spectacular surroundings and by the rhythm of the growing seasons.

 

The valley is not all the domain of men.  It is still the home of the steppe buzzard, brown with grey mottle, a migrant from Siberia; the local black eagle which nests in the high mountain kloofs; the dwarf hoepoe’ the kiewiet, or crowned plover which lays it’s eggs in the orchards; the grey and the Cape francolin; quail; the long-tailed sugar bird and the malachite sunbird.  An occasional fish eagle is seen over the rivers and his haunting raucous cry is an often necessary reminder that the valley is in Africa.  The magnificent giant kingfisher, the yellow-billed duck ad the black duck also live here.  Proteas dominate the indigenous growth on the mountain slope and include the creamy-white and rarest colored sugar bush, and, in one area, the blushing bride.  Here and there among the big proteas are the waboom or wagon trees, so called because their exceptionally hard wood was used for brake blocks, and the sledges on which the early pioneers of the Great Trek pulled their wagons – wheels removed – over the mountains of the interior.  Also prominent is red Erica heath, one of the 602 varieties of heath found in South Africa.

 

Wine has been a product of the Valley since the first white man settled there.  Vine cuttings were sent to the first commander of the Cape, Jan van Riebeeck, from Germany’s Rhineland in 1654 but arrived rotten.  Another batch, sent in the following year, proved to be the root and foundation of the wine industry.  The first wine was produced on February 2, 1659 and Van Riebeeck wrote joyously in his diary: Today, praise be the Lord, wine was made for the first time from Cape grapes.