Vergelegen Wine Estate in Somerset West, known for its food, wines, and gardens, has introduced new menu options for its white tablecloth summer picnics.
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The backdrop for this culinary experience is as notable as the food. Visitors can walk leisurely through a beautiful rose garden, filled with vibrant blossoms and pleasing fragrances, to reach the picnic area in a serene camphor tree forest.
Taking inspiration from the natural surroundings, the picnic menus offer a variety of flavours, textures, and visual elements. Options include standard, vegetarian, vegan, and children’s choices, which must be pre-ordered. Picnics are delivered in traditional wicker baskets, and guests can enjoy their meals at tastefully adorned tables.
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This is what you can look forward to:
Standard picnics (R420 per person)
This includes Franschhoek smoked salmon trout mousse, farm pork pie, and Scotch egg served with piccalilli and farm chutney, plus mini French butternut and blue cheese quiche with red wine onion marmalade.
This order also includes a selection of cheeses and home-cured charcuterie, coronation chicken with toasted almonds, coleslaw with pomegranates in a pineapple and coriander dressing, and a new potato salad with capers, dill, sweet pickles and homemade mayonnaise.
Vegetarian menu (R420 per person)
Offerings include wild mushroom and herb mousse, butternut and blue cheese quiche, cheeses, chickpea and lentil salad with basil vinaigrette, coleslaw, new potato salad, and spanakopita with tzatziki.
Standard and vegetarian menus include tiramisu desserts and filter coffee.
Children’s picnics (R180 per child, aged three to 10 years old)
This menu includes pizza pasta salad, a parmesan-crusted chicken breast wrap with lettuce and cheddar cheese, carrot sticks with cream and herb cheese dip, watermelon spears, and a dessert of soft serve ice cream with toppings, plus jelly sweets and cheesy popcorn.
Vergelegen wines are served, along with mineral water and soft drinks.
Details:
Picnics are served daily from November 2023 to April 2024. Baskets can be collected between 12:15pm and 1:30pm (closes at 4:30pm). Note that reservations must be made 24 hours in advance, and dietary preferences should be specified.
- Cost: Entrance fee R20 for adults | R10 for pensioners and scholars
- Location: Vergelegen Wine Estate, Lourensford Road, Somerset West
- Contact: 021 847 2111 | [email protected]
Menus and the beverage list can be viewed here.
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