Wine estate
Vergelegen
Est. 1700
Vergelegen is a South African wine estate, founded in 1700 in Somerset West.
- Type
- Wine estate
- Founded
- 1700
- Location
- Somerset West
- Region
- Western Cape
- Owner
- Anglo American plc (since 1987)
- Website
- vergelegen.co.za
Ownership history
Settled 1700 by Governor Willem Adriaan van der Stel; Theunissen family 1798; Sir Lionel Phillips 1917; Barlow family 1941; Anglo American bought it in 1987. Wine production restarted 1992.