Ashton
The town Ashton serves as the residential area for employees of the Langeberg Koöperasie, the largest producers in Southern Africa of canned fruit, jams and vegetables. Their principal factory is on the southern slopes of the Langeberg range near the entrance to Cogmans Kloof.
Between Robertson and Ashton the Sheilam Cactus Garden is an unusual commercial enterprise which produces more than 1000 cactus varieties.
The area is also noted for its rose nurseries and horse breeding.
Zandvliet Wine Estate is found in the scenic Robertson Valley, not far from Ashton. The farm straddles the Cogmans River, with the great Langeberg Mountains throwing a giant arm around it from the north and disappearing to the south-east. A small range of low limestone hills lie on Zandvliet's southern half, bringing the special magic to its kalkveld (calcareous earth) terroir. Only 130 kilometres due south is the southernmost point of Africa, Cape Agulhas, dynamo of the breezes that cool our hills in summer.
Zandvliet was proclaimed as a 5000 hectare farm in 1838, along with the rest of the Robertson district at that time, being granted to a Van Zyl and a Balthazar Kloppers.
Jacobus Stephanus de Wet bought the property in 1867. Upon his death, the farm was subdivided into Zandvliet, Prospect and Excelsior, with Paul de Wet (the first Paul on Zandvliet) buying the family farm from his eldest brother, who was an invalid. Today, over 130 years later, the fourth generation, Paul and Dan, are the proud custodians of this magnificent family heritage, Zandvliet. In its long history as a De Wet family legacy, although always a wine farm, Zandvliet in turn became well-known as an ostrich farm, famous as a racehorse-breeding stud, and now respected as a wine estate specialising in the growing and making of fine Shiraz wines.
Between Robertson and Ashton the Sheilam Cactus Garden is an unusual commercial enterprise which produces more than 1000 cactus varieties.
The area is also noted for its rose nurseries and horse breeding.
Zandvliet Wine Estate is found in the scenic Robertson Valley, not far from Ashton. The farm straddles the Cogmans River, with the great Langeberg Mountains throwing a giant arm around it from the north and disappearing to the south-east. A small range of low limestone hills lie on Zandvliet's southern half, bringing the special magic to its kalkveld (calcareous earth) terroir. Only 130 kilometres due south is the southernmost point of Africa, Cape Agulhas, dynamo of the breezes that cool our hills in summer.
Zandvliet was proclaimed as a 5000 hectare farm in 1838, along with the rest of the Robertson district at that time, being granted to a Van Zyl and a Balthazar Kloppers.
Jacobus Stephanus de Wet bought the property in 1867. Upon his death, the farm was subdivided into Zandvliet, Prospect and Excelsior, with Paul de Wet (the first Paul on Zandvliet) buying the family farm from his eldest brother, who was an invalid. Today, over 130 years later, the fourth generation, Paul and Dan, are the proud custodians of this magnificent family heritage, Zandvliet. In its long history as a De Wet family legacy, although always a wine farm, Zandvliet in turn became well-known as an ostrich farm, famous as a racehorse-breeding stud, and now respected as a wine estate specialising in the growing and making of fine Shiraz wines.
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