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Boschendal is one of the oldest wine producers in the New World with a French viticultural heritage dating back to 1685. The farm "Bossendaal" (wood and dale) was granted in 1685 to French émigré Jean le Long by the governor of the Cape, Simon van der Stel. Le Long was one of the many Protestant Huguenots who fled from France to escape religious persecution after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. In 1715 the property was purchased by the De Villiers brothers, Pierre, Abraham and Jacques, who were also French Huguenot vignerons and under their ownership Boschendal prospered and grew. In 1812, Paul de Villiers, grandson of Jacques, built the impressive Boschendal Manor House, now a national monument. The farm remained in the De Villiers family for 164 years until 1879. It was then sold to a Dutch farmer, D J Retief, who went insolvent seven years later and the property was purchased by J G C Myburgh. In 1896 the vineyards in the Drakenstein valley were destroyed by phylloxera, an insect which attacks the roots of plants. Whereupon Cecil John Rhodes purchased a number of the farms in the region, ripped out the diseased vines and established instead a deciduous fruit-growing industry. Boschendal became part of what is still known today as Rhodes Fruit Farms. After Rhodes' death in 1902, the farm was controlled by the De Beers company until 1936 when the property was sold to Sir Abe Bailey. On his death in 1941, ownership was acquired by a syndicate of four businessmen Messrs McDonald, Crean, Richards and Starck who in 1969 invited De Beers and the Anglo-American Corporation to acquire a majority interest in the Property and to assume management responsibility. Today the farm is part of the portfolio of Anglo-American Farms. Visit the Boschendal website. |
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