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Mooiplaas Wine Estate & Private Nature Reserve is a winery, vineyard and nature reserve situated in the Stellenbosch wine district of the Western Cape in South Africa. [1] The Stellenbosch estate dates back to 1806 when the first owner, Petrus Jacobus Bosman acquired the farm. It was bought in 1963 by Nicolaas and Mercia Roos.
The Stellenbosch Wine Route established in 1971 by Frans Malan from Simonsig, Spatz Sperling from Delheim, Neil Joubert from Spier and David van Velden from Overgaauw, known as Stellenbosch American Express® Wine Routes since 2002, is a world-renowned and popular tourist destination. This route provides visitors the opportunity to experience a ...
Coetzenburg is an historic wine estate and one of the oldest estates in South Africa, established in 1682.It is located at the foot of the Stellenbosch Mountain, which forms part of the estate, in the town of Stellenbosch, 31 miles (50 km) east of Cape Town, in the Cape Winelands of the Western Cape Province.
The post-democracy era meant a boom for the wine industry in South Africa. Estates were enlarged, and production was going up. But this was bad for the biodiversity of the area, and at Neetlingshof a biodiversity and conservation programme was developed by master viticulturist, Prof. Eben Archer, who was commissioned to re-plan and replant nearly all of the vineyards on the Neetlingshof estate.
The winery is noted particularly for its complex white wines. When Anglo American took ownership of Rhodes Fruit Farms and Boschendal in 1969 one of the key projects was the re-establishment of a range of wines under the Boschendal brand. In 1978, Achim van Arnim took charge as Cellarmaster, vowing to restore pre-eminence for the Estate's produce.
The winery is named after the German artist Christoph Dornier; he was the youngest son of aircraft designer Claude Dornier. [1] In 1995 Dornier started the estate by purchasing their first of five farms and the winery has since grown to more than 800 hectares. The land itself has a wine-growing history that dates to the mid 1960s. [2]
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]
The village was named after James Rattray (1859–1938), [16] [17] a Stellenbosch businessman who owned a butchery in Dorp Street. [12] He was the grandson of Scottish teacher James Rattray (c. 1795–1864) who immigrated to the Cape Colony in 1822, one of several British people recruited to the colony by Scottish missionary George Thom at the ...
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