I told you there was something special ab out the way the Delta winery was organised and, like everything there, Hiervandaan red wine has a story. Marq, a descendent of the de
Villiers, who were earlier owners of Delta (Paulina of Rickety Bridge being one of that ilk), came from Canada to research his
family history. Talking to a worker on a nearby farm, Marc mentioned that his
family had farmed the area for three hundred years. The labourer, having Koi
ancestry, replied that his family had been Hiervandaan (from hereabouts) since
“Sommer altyd” (for ever just) and the name for the wine wa born. That's the kind of association Mark Solms brought to Delta.
The Lekkerwijn rosé label was signed with the mark of the 1690
owner of a nearby farm slain by Silberbach, one of the early joint owners of
Delta. The dispute in which the unfortunate neighbour died is reputed to have been over Silberbach’s wife Ansela, a freed slave.
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