Grands Chais de France Purchases Historic Neethlingshof Winery Located In Stellenbosch
Grands Chais de France Purchases Historic Neethlingshof Winery Located In Stellenbosch. South African winery Neethlingshof winery has announced that it has been acquired by Grands Chais de France, a French company owned and run by the Helfrich Family.
After the acquisition of a Chilean wine estate in June this year, Les Grands Chais de France (GCF) has further expanded its international footprint with the acquisition of a South African property. The wine group, which owns 68 properties in France, from Calvet to Klipfel, and the JP Chenet wine brand, has officially bought the Neethlingshof winery in Stellenbosch, South Africa.
Neethlingshof Estate has a long and rich tradition of wine making in Stellenbosch, the second oldest and most premier wine producing area of South Africa. The Estate occupies an incredibly privileged site with ideal natural conditions, soils, slopes, altitudes and climate to produce a variety of great wines. All the grapes for the Neethlingshof wines are grown on the estate and all the wine is made, matured and bottled in the cellars of the estate, adhering to strict VEGAN guidelines during the entire farming and winemaking process.
Les Grands Chais de France was founded by Joseph Helfrich in 1979. The GCF Group is the privileged partner of wine-growers in the great wine-producing regions of France and a viticulturist and maturation specialist at the head of over 3,000 ha of vineyards. In just one generation, they have become a major stakeholder in Alsace, Jura, Languedoc, Bordeaux, Loire, Burgundy and more recently in Neethlingshof Winery.
