La Motte, Historic winery and farmhouse in Franschhoek Valley, South Africa.

La Motte is a wine estate near Franschhoek in the Cape Winelands, with 104 hectares of vines facing south to southwest at 300 to 400 metres above sea level. Its Cape Dutch manor house dates from the period after 1752, when wine growing began here, and was declared a national monument in 1975. The estate produces about 900 tonnes of wine a year, roughly 300,000 bottles, and holds 1,200 barrique barrels.

Hans Hattingh, a German settler, bought the land in 1695 and sold it in 1709 to his Huguenot neighbour Pierre Joubert, who named it after his French home village of La Motte d'Aigues. Vines were planted from 1752, and the Cape Dutch manor house of that period was declared a national monument in 1975. In the 19th century the estate belonged, like Boschendal, to Cape Colony prime minister Cecil Rhodes.

The estate's name comes from La Motte d'Aigues, the French home village of Huguenot Pierre Joubert, who bought the land in 1709. The Cape Dutch manor house from the wine-growing era after 1752 was declared a national monument in 1975. The on-site restaurant is named Pierneef.

The property is walkable, with trails leading through the vineyard rows and across the hillside. Several restaurants operate on-site, and there are tasting rooms where you can sample wines.

The manor house from the estate's early wine era, built in Cape Dutch style, was declared a national monument in 1975. In the 19th century La Motte, like Boschendal, belonged to Cecil Rhodes, then Prime Minister of the Cape Colony.