Seminars and company events
Spier suits small business groups that want to work in quiet surroundings: board meetings, strategy sessions, leadership retreats and team days for roughly 6 to 40 people, with everyone able to sleep on site. The venue is a working wine farm of 620 hectares in the Stellenbosch Winelands, South Africa, with a 76-room hotel, a spa and several restaurants within walking distance of the meeting rooms.
Rather than one conference center, the farm offers five meeting venues. Each opens onto gardens or the banks of the Eerste River, so a session can move outdoors and breaks can be taken among the vines. The events team builds programs around the farm itself: shared activities, wine, and seasonal meals made with produce grown on the property. A meeting day can be extended with a picnic on the Werf, the old farmyard, or a seated lunch at Vadas Smokehouse and Bakery.
Weddings and receptions
Spier refers to weddings beneath its old oak trees as part of its functions offer. The website does not publish wedding capacities or packages, so couples should ask the events team which spaces are available and for how many guests.
Rooms and capacities
Spier Manor, the restored manor house, is booked for exclusive use by 6 to 24 guests. It has two meeting rooms, a drawing room and its own team, and works well for business lunches and strategy sessions that need privacy.
The Yellowwood Lounge is the largest meeting venue, for up to 40 guests. It stands beside the historic Old Wine Cellar and comes with a breakout room and a verandah facing the river.
The Riverhouse takes 16 to 30 guests in indoor and outdoor areas along the water, surrounded by more than 400 artworks from the Creative Block project. Next to it, the Riverhouse Studio is a bright room built around a single table for 12, with informal breakout corners and a terrace covered in vines.
Inside the hotel, the Hotel Meeting Room seats up to 12 around a long oak table, with doors that open onto a private courtyard.
Accommodation
The Spier Hotel has 76 rooms, split between rooms, suites and private villas. Guests have a heated outdoor pool, a rooftop bar and a spa with a herbal bath house. Walking and cycling trails, art installations and wine tastings are all reachable on foot, which helps fill the free hours of a residential retreat.
Catering
Menus follow the seasons and draw on what the farm produces. Restaurants on the property include Veld and the Garden Room at the hotel, the Rooftop Bar and the Wine Bar, Vadas Family Eatery and Bakery, and Spier Manor. The wine poured comes from the estate.
History and setting
Spier traces its origins to 1692. It was a founding member of the Stellenbosch Wine Route, created in 1971. The farm is still a working estate, with vineyards, gardens and an art program spread across the grounds, and the Eerste River running through it.
Getting there
Spier is about 25 minutes by road from Cape Town International Airport, in the heart of the Stellenbosch Winelands. For a group, a coach transfer from the airport is the simplest option. Hotel packages are listed separately on the Spier website.
