Nederburg Harvest at Dusk: An Immersive Food + Wine Festival

There’s a magic to harvest season in the Cape Winelands, when the fruit of the vine delivers its bounty at the end of summer, that as a wine-lover you yearn to be part of. Nederburg’s annual Harvest at Dusk invites you to step right into the heart of the 2026 vintage. Alongside the winemakers at this historic Paarl wine farm, you’ll taste the grape must, pick grapes and stomp them, and then settle down to a celebratory alfresco feast on the lawns in front of the atmospheric Cape Dutch manor house, as sunset gives way to moonlight.

Join the harvest

Together with canapés on arrival you’ll get to taste the freshly fermenting grape must (the crushed juice still with the skins and seeds) and engage with winemakers. It’s an immediate and evocative connection to the season and the wine-making process.

Next you’ll hop onto a tractor trailer and head into the vineyards to hand-pick your own grapes as golden evening light settles across the mountain-framed landscape. The vintage comes alive in a different way in the presence of the vines, the soil, with the ripe grapes in your hand.

Then it’s back to the historic manor house where, if you wish, you can roll up your trousers and your skirts and try your feet at grape stomping, a playful, sweet, satisfyingly messy reminder of winemaking’s earliest traditions.

A fire-cooked feast

As dusk deepens, a fire-inspired, three-course dinner is served, celebrating elemental cooking and seasonal flavour. The menu features Karoo lamb staanrib with garlic and rosemary, BBQ-glazed pork belly lollipops with burnt apple purée, coal-roasted butternut with pumpkin seeds and curry purée, and grilled tomato and fior di latte caprese salad with basil pesto and olive oil. Each course is paired with one of Nederburg’s award-winning wines.

The night is young

As dinner winds down the harvest celebration continues, with live music that lures you to kick off your shoes and dance on the lawns under the stars, the summer night air redolent with grapes, vineyards, a wisp of smoke from the cooking fires and a cool waxing moon high in the sky.

Immersive, soulful and hands-on with the vintage, Nederburg’s harvest festival is one for the memory books.

Good to know No under 18s. Guests are advised to wear hats, sunscreen, comfortable clothing and shoes.
Cost R1 495 (includes harvest experience, 3-course dinner + wine pairing)
When Saturday, 28 February 2026
Time 5pm – 10pm
Where to find it Nederburg Wine Farm, Sonstraal Road, Paarl
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