2011 Klein Constantia Vin de Constance (500ml)

Vin de Constance 500ml - Klein Constantia Estate.  Over 300 years of history in every bottle & arguably South Africas most iconic wine.

Klein Constantia was historically part of Simon van der Stels original estate when the Dutch settlers first arrived in South Africa  .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 Kings vied for possession of this wine; Louis Philippe sent emissaries from France to fetch it; Napoleon drank it on the island of St Helena to find solace in his lonely exile; Frederick the Great and Bismarck ordered it; and the English Prime Minister  who had sampled it with much delight at Downing Street made sure that regular consignments from the Cape were delivered to Buckingham Palace for the King........The sweet, luscious and excellent dessert wine called Constantia soon became part of the literature of the 19th century. In Edwin Drood, Charles Dickens tells of the support embodied in a glass of Constantia and a home-made biscuit, while Jane Austen recommends that her forsaken heroine try a little Constantia for its healing powers on a disappointed heart.

In 1980, during the redevelopment of Klein Constantia Estate, everyone involved was inspired by the challenge the mission even to bring back the famous sweet Constantia wine. Since being re-introduced in 1986, Vin de Constance has consistently appeared in lists of the Worlds finest wines.