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The Story
This wine has always been popular among the greatest writers and politicians: Napoléon Bonaparte had some bottles delivered weekly at Saint-Hélène during his exile, Charles Baudelaire mentionned it in its famous Les Fleurs du Mal, it was appreciated by Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette, the King of England George IV and the Queen Elizabeth II, but also George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Charles Dickens, Nelson Mandela and so on.
Vin de Const...
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Over 300 years of history in every bottle.
For the first time in history, arguably South Africa’s most iconic wine, Vin de Constance is now available in a patented 1,5 litre magnum bottle.
“From these Elysian fields used to come one of the very greatest wines in the world – the legendary Constantia,” writes Hugh Johnson, “Constantia was bought by European courts in the 18th and 19th Centuries in preference to Yquem, Tokay, Madeira…”.
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