Jabulani
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Jabulani
Vineyard & Winery
WE ARE OPEN FOR TASTING SESSIONS AND PICNICS - Fridays through Sundays. Walk-ins are welcome for tasting sessions but reservations are recommended.
PICNICS OR TASTING TABLES
We are open for tasting sessions and picnics - Fridays through Sundays. Walk-ins are welcome for tasting sessions but reservations are recommended. Picnics need to be booked 24 hours in advance.
Please note that the outdoor tasting patio will close at the end of September. We will have a smaller area inside for tasting Saturdays and Sundays from 1pm to 4:30pm for the month of October – if your group is more than 4 people, please contact us to make a reservation.
Picnics end September 18th.
Please note that the winery will be closed October 1 & 2.
Tasting tables are booked by size of table and times – 11am, 1pm and 3pm. There are tables that can accommodate up to 4, 6, 8, 10, 12 & 16 people. The tasting booking includes 6 selected wines (chosen by our resident sommelier). You are welcome to arrive any time between 11am and 4pm and have a bottle of wine on the patio. Cheese plates are available for purchase and can be ordered upon arrival.
The picnics are for up to 4, 6 or 12 people (for 12 people, there is only one site, which is the Crush Pad). They are at 11am, 1pm and 3pm. Picnics include charcuterie, cheese plate, bread, a bottle of wine and a bottle of cider (2 each if group of 12) as well as a wagon ride. The picnics range from: up to 4 people (pond or orchard) $140.12 hst included; 5 to 6 people (crush pad, orchard or pond) $210.18 hst included; and 7 to 12 people (crush pad only) $420.36 hst included. Reservations are required 24 hours prior to the picnic.
You can book on line at Booking System - Jabulani Vineyard and Winery Ltd | Skedda. Toggle to your choice of either picnic sites or tasting patio, the date and then click on the green dot for the options for the tasting patio. Likewise, change the map to picnic sites and click on the green dot to see your booking options.
Book your PICNIC or PATIO TABLE by using the link or this schedule:
https://jabulani.skedda.com/booking
PURCHASING WINE: Wine can be purchased in person at our retail store during regular hours or online or by phone. Please give us a call (613-454-5460) or send usan email (either tom@jabulani.ca or info@jabulani.ca ) to make an appointment to pick up your wine.
FREE DELIVERY OF WINE to Ottawa and boundary areas
If you would like to buy wine, send an email to tom@jabulani.ca with your case lot order (12 bottles, mixed or not). We need an email address, a delivery address and phone number on your message. The order will be entered into our system and the order info will be emailed back to you so that you can complete your payment.
All paid orders will be safely packed and delivered to your door step. If you would like less than 12, you can arrange a parking lot pick up or purchase directly from the retail store.
Note: delivery areas will be City of Ottawa West from the Rideau everyday except Thursdays (including downtown, Glebe, Westboro, Hindenburg, Nepean, Richmond, Ashton, Munster, Kanata, Stittsville, Barrhaven, Riverside South, AltaVista, Kemptville, Manotick, Carp, Carleton Place, North Gower and Almonte).
Thursdays, we will deliver to Ottawa East of the Rideau - Vanier, Overbrook, Gloucester, St. Laurent, Innes, Blackburn Hamlet, Orleans, Navan, Cumberland and Rockland.
If you do not see your area in these lists, please give us a call and we can see if it is possible to add your area.
You can also contact tom@jabulani.ca for curb side pickup or home delivery.
Jabulani is a Zulu word meaning happiness or rejoice and so this is the place of happiness. It was what Tom said he was feeling as we walked the property before buying it in 2006. When we bought it, it was just a fallow field – nothing on it – but we fell in love with it all the same. Tom had been making wine since he was a teenager back in Africa and we knew we would always be making wine, just never dreamed it would be from our own grapes! Tom has used methods that he learned while visiting the wine regions of the Cape Province of South Africa near to where his grandfather lived. This seems to have given our wines a unique flavour that is favoured by our customers and wine judges alike. To date we have fifteen international awards and five Canadian championship awards, including a Double Gold for our Marquette Chete 2015, and intend on continuing to enter competitions to prove that Canadians can make world class wines.
We started planting vines in the spring of 2007 and our first harvest was in 2010. Jabulani opened its doors in 2011. It was a small venue at that time – a tasting patio with five barrels as tables and the store was run out of the bottom portion of our home.
Today we have eight different varieties of cold climate vines numbering just over 11,000 on 11 acres of the farm. We have expanded the winery to include a separate building from our home and it is there that we not only make our award winning wines but where we also host events such as weddings. There are three favourite locations on our farm where couples have chosen to have their ceremonies; by the pond behind our home, within the old orchard and the most popular has been in our crush pad. The winery can accommodate events of up to 180 people indoors and 100 people outside at our tasting patio.
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