Luke O’Cuinneagain
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first heard Jul 2026
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It's a magnificent historic estate based in the Stellenbosch wine region in South Africa.
And it's an estate that's intertwined into the fabric of South Africa and the winemaking heritage of South Africa.
And the reason I say winemaking heritage is that it was started in 1700.
by the second governor of the Cape, a guy called Willem Adriaan van der Stel and he established the farm to do a lot of experimental farming and he planted the first half a million vines here.
When he was doing his experimental farming he wanted it out of the eyes of the Dutch East Indies Company and that's why it's situated where it is which is a distance from Cape Town but it's also where the name comes from which means situated far away.
So he could do different farming.
He tried to establish a silk industry and spice industry and stuff to corner the shipping that was happening around the Cape.
But if you look in a modern setting in South Africa, when South Africa was going through its transition to agriculture,
uh end of apartheid thinking and the new government taking over and the formation of the new south africa all the negotiations actually took place in the manor house here it was the only place that the two sides could uh both agree on that they were happy to sit and do the negotiation so it's a funny quirk of history as it were and a fascinating history and uh the bird song in the background it's a beautiful sunny winter's day here today it's
It is for South African standards of a wine farm it is a huge property.
I mean with 3,200 hectares
where we do multiple different things.
We've got cattle, we've got fruit on the farm, obviously we've got all the vines for making wine, we've got hospitality offerings, and then I think what's core to us are twofold.
We've got the magnificent gardens around,
which if you include the arboretum is about 60 hectares.
But we've got 2,200 hectares of land that we took back to the natural fauna and flora.
And we're very proud of that.
If you're looking at the species of plants that have re-established, we've got certain species that had previously thought to be extinct have re-established themselves.
And we know we've got about 15 to 20 plant species that we've got more than 90% of the known living examples there.
So it's become a very passionate source of pride for us.
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