2009 News
02/02/09 - 350 Years of Wine Making in SA |
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| Although South Africa is counted amongst the New World´s wine producers, the first grapes were
pressed for wine at the Cape, nearly 350 years ago, in 1659 under Jan van Riebeeck. He had come to
the Cape in 1652 to establish a settlement on behalf of the Dutch East India Company. Vineyards were
planted more extensively a generation later, when the French Huguenots began arriving from 1688 onwards,
fleeing religious persecution. Read more... |
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