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A good way to explore Cape Town without stress is to board the Red City Tour Bus which leaves the V & A Waterfront every 35 minutes. The bus now stops at Groot Constantia; the inaugural visit was on the 21st January.

CEO Jean Naudé invited Chinese Consul General Hao Guanfeng and Mrs Kong Wei, Vice Consul General Song Lianjie, as well as Consul Mr Defu Xu to a traditional South African Braai at his home on the Estate.

Groot Constantia fared exceptionally well in Platters Guide 2011 with Gouverneurs Chardonnay 2009 gaining 5 Stars!

Perhaps the biggest capital investment a Wine Estate makes is in its staff. When one visits Groot Constantia the feeling of happy and helpful abounds, an absolute pleasure for guests.

General Manager of Groot Constantia Jean Naudé was contacted by The Historical Museum of Wine and Spirits, Stockholm in January of this year.  The Director of the museum had read a press release about the re-launch of Grand Constance in an exquisite bottle styled on old shards of bottles found in the Roosevelt Inlet Shipwreck found on Lewes Beach in Delaware.

CEO of Groot Constantia Estate, Jean Naudé is excited about the discovery of additional antique wine bottles which have come to light during the last year with the latest being a 300 year old bottle found off the coast of Stockholm.

There are two fabulous restaurants on the Estate, both have shared one of their tasty, easy to make recipes.

Well done to Boela Gerber, winemaker ,Daniel Keulder assistant winemakers as well as their cellar team for being awarded Platter's Five Stars for the Groot Constantia Gouverneurs Chardonnay 2009.

The original sweet wine which made Groot Constantia one of the world’s iconic wine producers during the 18^th and 19^th centuries has been re-launched in an elegantly classical and historically true bottle to celebrate the Estate’s 325^th anniversary.

Groot Constantia's place in history received another significant endorsement in 2004 when an American citizen picked up a piece of glass on the beach at Lewes, Delaware, on the east coast of America. The piece of glass had an inscription "Constantia Wyn" on it and American historians traced this artefact which was found among other porcelain items, to a ship that stranded in the Delaware Bay in 1774. The ship was a British supply ship named the Severn, which sank in the Delaware Bay after being hit by a storm. The wreckage was only discovered in 2004.