Tourist attraction
Klein Constantia Estate
Cape vineyard where a formerly enslaved family once grew the world's most coveted dessert wine.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Klein Constantia Estate in Cape Town follows Johannes Colijn, son of a freed slave, who took over part of the old Constantia farm after Simon van der Stel's death split it in 1712. You'll hear how he and his widow Johanna Appel built a vineyard that grew into one of the Cape's most celebrated wine names, and how their descendants kept it going for generations. The guide traces the fame that wine earned far beyond the Cape, and asks what later histories chose to remember about who grew it.
This audio guide was created using AI.