Wednesday, 19 August, 2015
wine.co.za
The wine
making tradition at Landskroon dates back to the 17th century when the
French Huguenots settlers came to the Cape. Among the newcomers was
Jacques de Villiers, a wine maker from Niort in France. In 1874 his
great-grandson, Paul, bought a portion of the original Landskroon farm
that had been granted to a free burger by governor Simon van der Stel in
1692.
As a tightly-knit family, we can only imagine the pain they are going through at this time.