Until the 2017 administrative reform of Estonian municipalities the village was located in Tarvastu Parish.The population as of 2014 was 305 people.

It is 42 km (26 miles) southeast of the town of Viljandi, near the southern coast of Lake Võrts.

[2] In the 17th century, the German nobles Jürgen Schütte Bultler and Franz Scutten began building a large manor in Suislepa.

[4] The manor also has a plaque dedicated to the victims of the Great Famine of Estonia, which killed approximately a fifth of the Estonian and Livonian population (70,000–75,000 people) from 1695 to 1697.

A commemorative stone now marks the place where the parent tree of the popular cultivar once grew.