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Delaire Graff Estate - Luxury Wine Tourism

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In the heart of one of the most fertile wine-growing regions of the New World became a millionaire an English estate of success in luxury wine tourism, the Delaire Graff Estate .

When in 1659 the Dutch began to produce wine in the Cape Province, South Africa, were far from believing that those lands, which at the time were beginning to bear fruit one day they would become extraordinarily valuable, precisely because Because of the wine.

The nectar South Africans are now present in most major international wine competitions, winning prizes for quality that we, producers of the Old World, let us sometimes with a tinge of envy.

One of the regions most vocal when it comes to wines of South Africa's Stellenbosch, thirty miles from Cape Town . It is there, with the passage of Helshootge, a small fertile valley at the foot of the peak Botmaskop, we found the Delaire Graff Estate. Originally, the vineyards of the estate were planted by French Huguenots who arrived in the late seventeenth century. Brought with him, but faith - were fleeing religious persecution launched against the Protestants - the experience in producing quality wine. The time and the palate of men proved that the bet was successful, and hence have left some excellent wines.

After several owners, the land was acquired in 2003 by English millionaire Laurence Graff, the famous jeweler that sells diamond to the Sultan of Brunei, with stores in the United States, United Kingdom, Russia , Middle East, China and Japan , whose fortune is estimated at 1700 million. Besides the investment in wine production, with more and better equipment, Delaire Graff Estate transformed into a enoturimo five stars, with ten lodges of eighty square meters equipped with private pool, purpose built furniture for the purpose and privileged view over the vineyards and mountains. The luxury restaurant, cinema and spa came to compose the cocktail of good taste, spicy with good practice.

Of course luxury has a price. And here the minimum price are nearly seven hundred euros per day which includes accommodation for two adults and a child, breakfast, access to the mini-bar, internet, transfers to Stellenbosch, private tour of the winery, the cellars and vineyards of the estate, wine tasting, champagne in the evening, use of gym, pool and spa.

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