Laborie

South Africa

Laborie has been making wine since 1691, when a French Huguenot named Isaac Taillefert was granted a farm on the slopes of Paarl Mountain. He brought his name from a village in Champagne, which is why this estate, three centuries later, still feels destined to make sparkling wine. Within seven years of arrival the family was producing wine that visiting travellers compared favourably with small Champagnes, and the vineyards have been worked continuously ever since. The original Cape Dutch manor house is a National Monument, the surrounding vines have outlasted empires, and today Laborie sits within the KWV stable as one of the Cape's most reliable names for Méthode Cap Classique.