La Motte’s history spans several centuries back to the later 17th
century when land in the Franschhoek Valley was granted to a German
immigrant.
Early in the 18th century the land was bought
by a French Huguenot who named it after La Motte d’ Aigues, the village
of his birth in Provence. Four thousand vines were planted in 1752,
thereby establishing viticulture on La Motte and starting a tradition of
wine making which stretches over the centuries to the present day.
Today La Motte is owned by Hanneli Rupert-
Koegelenberg, daughter of the late Dr Anton Rupert an internationally
respected businessman who acquired the farm in 1970 and oversaw the
restoration of the farm which boasts four national monuments built in
the 18th century.