Wine estate
Boschendal
Est. 1685
Boschendal is a South African wine estate, founded in 1685 in Groot Drakenstein, between Franschhoek and Stellenbosch.
- Type
- Wine estate
- Founded
- 1685
- Location
- Groot Drakenstein, between Franschhoek and Stellenbosch
- Region
- Franschhoek / Stellenbosch
- Website
- boschendal.com
Ownership history
Title deeds date to 1685; first owner Jean le Long (granted 1688); De Villiers family from 1717 to 1879; Cecil Rhodes bought it in 1887 (Rhodes Fruit Farms); Anglo American from 1969; consortium led by Clive Venning in 2003; a consortium of South African investors in 2012.
Archivist's note
The founding date is the date of the farm’s title deeds, not of the winery.