Guided Dinner Experience in Cape Town

Terroir & Table Dinners at Cape Grace

Cape Town takes its name from a table: the mountain that watches over the city, the bay that opens beneath it. For more than three centuries, the Cape’s wines have sailed from this harbour to reach the world.

Cape Grace, A Fairmont Managed Hotel, is setting its own place at that table with Terroir & Table, a series of winemaker dinners held at Heirloom Restaurant. The premise is simple: one estate, one night. Executive Chef Wesli Jacobs composes a menu in conversation with the wines, while the featured winemaker takes the role of host rather than guest of honour, pouring, answering and telling the story behind every glass to a room where Cape Town’s most curious sit beside guests who have crossed oceans to join them.

Each evening begins with a welcome toast and a tour of the charming Bascule Cellar, followed by dinner at Cape Grace’s Heirloom Restaurant, where every course and wine pairing is built for the other. As a prelude to each dinner, a curated selection of the featured winemaker’s wines is poured for a limited time in the Library Lounge, with bottles available to purchase.

With only 30 seats available each month, Terroir & Table is an intimate gathering, an invitation to savour not only what’s in the glass, but the people, places and passions behind every pour.