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Visitors to Groot Constantia have the choice of two excellent restaurants both of which supply Picnic Baskets on order.

In September 2010, Groot Constantia participated in the 36th Nederburg Auction. The first Nederburg Auction took place in 1975. It is one of very few wineries that have consistently achieved selections status for every consecutive auction since then.

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.

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.

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.