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Blue Grove Hill

The second wine of the South African Capaia estate; see there.

The winery in South Africa is located 20 kilometres north of Cape Town and ten kilometres from the Atlantic Ocean. It belongs to the Philadelphia Ward, which was only defined in 2004. Capaia was created from nothing, so to speak. In 1996, the German Alexander Baron von Essen had New Zealand soil researchers carry out around a thousand soil drillings here in order to determine the suitability for viticulture. Up to this time only wheat had been grown here. The soil consists of slate, volcanic rock and loam. In 1987, the Baron had founded the wine trading company...

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