Over 300 years ago the French Huguenots first recognised the perfect natural prevailing conditions of the Franschhoek’s alluvial sandstone soils, long hot summer days, abundant winter rainfall and varied mountainous landscape and valley floor vineyards.
In 1945 37 wine growers from Franschhoek collaborated to form Franschhoek Co-Operative Cellar.
The Co-Op grew to include 95 producers and peaked in 1984 crushing 12 000 tons. Sadly some of these vineyards have since been lost to urbanisation and replaced by deciduous fruit trees and citrus.
As part of the premium stable of fine wines now belonging to DGB(Pty)Ltd, there are now xxx active growers who delivered 8000 tons in 2009. These grapes are harvested from farms spread out across the Coastal region of the Cape winelands.
