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Although South Africa is counted
amongst the New World’s wine
producers, the first grapes were
pressed for wine at the Cape, nearly
350 years ago, in 1659 under Jan van
Riebeeck. He had come to the Cape in
1652 to establish a settlement on
behalf of the Dutch East India
Company.
Vineyards were planted more
extensively a generation later, when
the French Huguenots began arriving
from 1688 onwards, fleeing religious
persecution.
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