Capewinecompany.co.za Website Review

Cape Wine Company is a purveyor of fine wines to wine lovers across the world. With a resident winemaker on our side, we ensure only the Cape Wine Company was founded in 2010 when Erlank Erasmus decided to take his craft as winemaker and create a space from which he could share the produce with wine lovers across the world. With full confidence in the quality of wine produced in the Cape Winelands of Cape Wine Company likes to get creative and develop new product ranges throughout the year. Given the rich history of our country, Cape Wine Company is proud to give back to the communities that as*ist in producing our wines, from vine to bottle, through participating in the Fairtrade initiative. This initiative ensures that fa*ming communities in the South African Similarly, through participating in the Wine and Agricultural Ethical Trade As*ociation (WIETA), Cape Wine Company supports ethical trade within the local wine industry. We are also a BEE Level 7 contributor. In 1693, Pieter “Den Deen” Erasmus took a brave journey from the Netherlands to settle in the Cape. On 28 February 1699, Governer Willem Adriaan van der Stel would grant Erasmus the fa*m De Groenenbergh in Wagenmakersvallei. He married Maria Elizabeth Joosten who then joined him and subsequently gave birth to their son, Rasmus – the first of nine children. Until his death in 1731, Erasmus paved the way for what today thrives as green-stretching vineyards. As the progenitor of the Erasmus family of South Africa, his legacy continues to thrive in his descendants who are still crafting wine in this region to this very day. De Nieuwe Haarlem, carries a legend filled with bravery, adventure and perseverance. As one of the VOC’s (Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie) fleet it ploughed the oceans between continents at a time when the VOC was the world’s first and mightiest multi-national corporation. From the VOC’s headquarters in Amsterdam it transported high company officials to far-away colonies.