Let food be thy medicine, and medicine be thy food" Hippocrates
The “Walking in the Spirit of Creation” experience will lift your spirits and feed you, body, mind and soul.
Exquisite food leaving you feeling light & energised. Deeply soothed, happy and well nourished.
Designed to Lift the Human Spirit
This menu has been co-created with wellness at its core. Its arc follows human digestive physiology – from alkalising opener through iron-rich warmth to calming close – while each course is positioned to serve your body’s particular needs during the cold season. It is, at every turn, a menu designed to lift.
In winter, when the world turns inward, Creation offers you a table where you are held by 400-million-year-old soils, surrounded by art that penetrates the soul, guided through wines that carry the cold ocean air of Walker Bay in every glass, and nourished by a kitchen that has responded – chapter by chapter – to what the vine asked for.
Read more about the Anton Smit Connection and Art Walks at Creation
“The works do not simply occupy the landscape – they enter into a living dialogue with it.”
~ Carolyn Martin, Creation Wines.
HERMANUS, WESTERN CAPE – On the Hemel-en-Aarde Ridge, where ancient Bokkeveld shale meets ocean-cooled air, and the fynbos turns silver in the winter light, Creation Wines invites you to slow down, breathe deeply, and walk in the spirit of creation. This winter, the estate launches Walking in the Spirit of Creation – a six-chapter wine and food pairing menu designed to nourish not only the body, but also the mind and the human spirit through the quietest and most restorative season of the year.
A Wine-First Menu, Told in Six Chapters
At the heart of this experience lies a philosophy that has always guided Creation: the wine leads, and the dish responds. Each course has been composed not from a recipe outward, but from the glass inward. The wine is the constant – the purest expression of the Ridge’s ancient soils – and every ingredient on the plate exists because of something the wine is asking for.
Because the senses are the pathways to the mind, you will be surprised and delighted by the connections you discover between the wine, the terroir and the table as each chapter unfolds. This is a menu that speaks to you through taste, aroma and sensation – and the further you travel through it, the more the Ridge reveals itself.
The menu unfolds as a sequence of six chapters, each intentionally placed, each physiologically and emotionally purposeful.
You arrive to a warm welcome of ginger or honeybush tea, with an invitation to stroll among Anton Smit’s sculptures before being seated. The Sauvignon Blanc is poured first. Then a Green Sattvic Winter Root Velouté arrives, with a single Spiced Brätzeli – alkalising, warming, Ayurvedic in spirit, designed to prime your digestive system for the journey ahead.
The Welcome: Minerality Rules ~ Setting the tone
The journey begins with a soothing hand cleansing ritual. Feel pampered, it is intentional and delived with loving sincerity.
The Sauvignon Blanc is poured first. Then a Green Sattvic Winter Root Velouté arrives, with a single Spiced Brätzeli – alkalising, warming, Ayurvedic in spirit, designed to prime your digestive system for the journey ahead.
See the recipe: https://www.creationwines.com/recipe/sattvic-winter-root-veloute-avo-oil-fennel-spiced-bratzeli/
Chapter 1
Creation Sauvignon Blanc Semillon pairs a Celeriac Rösti with Garden Greens, Kimchi and Green Tea Kombucha and Labneh alongside the Sauvignon Blanc Semillon – live fermented kimchi and prebiotic fibre preparing you for the richer chapters to follow.
This wine brings saline minerality and freshness. The palate feels rinsed, awakened and newly interested in life. The dish mirrors that brightness with coastal notes and gentle balancing acidity.
Chapter 2
Creation Rousanne Grenache Blanc Vionier paired with Agedashi Tofu with Sesame, Herbs and Ginger to the Roussanne Grenache Blanc Viognier – a calming, plant-forward interlude of warm dashi and silken protein at the mid-menu moment.
Chapter 3
Chardonnay here is silky, elegant and quietly persuasive. It is called Absolutely Brilliant Chardonnay for a reason. It rounds the edge of spices, coaxes sweetness from vegetables, and lets richness glide rather than lumber. This is balance at its most seductive: generosity without excess, texture without heaviness.
The ocean in the shell and the ocean in the glass become one, and the Chardonnay’s character opens in a way that no description could do justice to. It is one of those rare moments where a wine experience becomes a memorable, multi-sensored moment in time.
Then the dish arrives: B’Bos Trout – locally farmed at Baardskeerdersbos close to Stanford, clean and delicate – with Avocado, Roasted Fennel and Trout Caviar. It answers the wine’s texture and weight – its gentle richness meeting the Chardonnay’s precision, the fennel’s anise warmth echoing the wine’s aromatic lift, the caviar adding a whisper of brine that the glass had already promised.
Recipe: https://www.creationwines.com/recipe/seared-trout-with-avocado-and-fennel-beurre-blanc/
Chapter 4
Now the velvet glove arrives: Creation Pinot Noir, Ridge or Art of Pinot Noir, served with either oyster mushroom and chickpea tempeh or springbok loin, alongside samp risotto, spinach, radish, violets and nori.
With fine-grained tannins, mineral complexity and notes of red fruit, violet and forest floor, the wine deepens the palate without dominating it. Earthy food grounds the wine; the wine gives wings to the food. It is a beautiful Ballet move.
Chapter 5
Then comes Creation Syrah Grenache, arrives as a moment of pure winter warmth – a Spiced Roasted Potato and Jerusalem Artichoke Consommé with Smoked Paprika and Rosemary, paired with the Creation Syrah Grenache. The consommé is poured at the table in a slow, aromatic arc — a deeply savoury, restorative course that settles the body before the final chapter. The Syrah Grenache’s dark spice, peppery depth and generous fruit find their echo in the smoky warmth of the broth and the earthiness of the Jerusalem artichoke. Herb tones gently huddle it all together.
Recipe: https://www.creationwines.com/recipe/spiced-roasted-potato-jerusalem-artichoke-consomme/
Chapter 6
The magical culinary journey ends with your choice of dessert – a Date Cake with Poached Pear, Ginger Gelato and Honeybush Toffee poured slowly at the table, a Dark Chocolate Fondant with Clemengold Gelato, or a Trio of Cheeses – each paired respectively with Creation Cape White, Fine Cape Vintage, or Elation Cap Classique.
https://www.creationwines.com/recipe/clemengold-chocolate-fondant-dessert/
Book Your Creation Wines in harmony with nature blissful balance experience
For reservations, more information, recipes and wine sales, please visit the Creation Wines website.
Heaven Meets Earth: The Anton Smit Connection
The menu arrives at a moment of artistic alignment. World-renowned South African sculptor Anton Smit has brought his monumental works to the Creation estate, where they stand in living dialogue with the vineyards, the mountains and the sky.
‘Just like Creation is obsessed with creating superior wines, I am obsessed with creating sculptures that penetrate the soul of man,’ says Smit, whose work explores the complex and eternal relationship between God and man.
‘The works do not simply occupy the landscape – they enter into a living dialogue with it,’ reflects Carolyn Martin, Creation Wines.
It is this same living dialogue – between wine and food, between land and season, between artist and you – that anchors the new winter experience.
You are warmly invited to visit the estate and immerse yourself in Walking in the Spirit of Creation, where a guided Art Walk through Anton Smit’s outdoor sculpture exhibition can be arranged as part of your visit. Bookings for the Art Walk are open for the coming year – an extraordinary winter ritual, or a gift to carry forward into every season. To book, visit creationwines.com or contact the estate directly.
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