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The goat tower at Fairview, Paarl. Fairview Wine and Cheese farm is a South African producer of wines and cheeses based in the Paarl region of the Western Cape province. It is owned and run by Charles Back, who also owns The Goats do Roam Wine Company and The Spice Route Winery.
The Boschendal estate is crowned by the original Cape Dutch manor house, which is open to visitors, together with associated wine tasting venues, restaurants and outbuildings and visitor attractions. In the late 1960s the estate was taken over by the Anglo American Corporation , before being sold in 2003 to a consortium of international ...
Platter's South African Wines (29th ed.). Cape Town: Newsome McDowall. ISBN 978-0-9584506-7-6. Venter, Chris: Die wynmakerfamilie van Zonnebloem, Simondium, 1915-1963, published in Historia, Volume 57, Issue 2, November 2012; Jim Clarke, The wines of South Africa, Infinite Ideas Limited, 2020; James Seely, The Wines of South Africa, Faber ...
The South African Wine & Spirit Board operates a voluntary programme that allows South African wines to be "certified" for quality and accuracy in labelling. Under this certification process, vintage dated wine must be composed of at least 85% grapes that were harvested that vintage year. Varietal wines must also be composed of at least 85% of ...
The estate is known for its world class polo facilities, Jack Nicklaus Signature Golf Course, mountain bike trails and L'Huguenot wine cellar. [4] Home to the "Safest House in Africa", [5] [6] Val de Vie Estate has been named the number one residential estate in South Africa by New World Wealth for five consecutive years from 2015 to 2019. [7] [8]
Groot Constantia, the oldest wine estate in South Africa. On 2 February 1659 the founder of Cape Town, Jan van Riebeeck, produced the first wine recorded in South Africa. [1] In 1685, the Constantia estate was established in a valley facing False Bay by the Governor of the Cape, Simon van der Stel. His 'Vin de Constance' soon acquired a good ...
Charles Louis Back is the third-generation owner of South African wine and cheese producer Fairview, in Paarl in the Western Cape province. Fairview Estate is a third-generation family-owned farm, located on the slopes of the Paarl Mountain in the winelands of the Western Cape.
Paarl gained additional international attention when, on 11 February 1990, Nelson Mandela walked, with live international television coverage, out of Victor Verster Correctional Centre (now known as Drakenstein Correctional Centre) in Paarl ending his 27 years of imprisonment, and beginning a course to South Africa's post-apartheid era and ...