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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 988 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CONSTANTIA , a See also:

district of Cape See also:Colony, in the Cape See also:peninsula, noted for the excellent quality of its wines, the best produced in See also:South See also:Africa. The See also:government See also:wine See also:farm, See also:Groot Constantia, to m. S. of Cape See also:Town, contains over 150,000 vines. This and the adjacent farm of High Constantia are the only farms on which the vines yielding the finest wines flourish. The district is also celebrated for the excellence of the See also:fruit it yields. Groot Constantia See also:House is a See also:good example of the Dutch colonial dwelling-houses of the 17th See also:century. It was built (c. 1684) by the See also:governor See also:Simon See also:van der Stell, and named in See also:honour of his wife See also:Constance. Van der Stell also laid out the vineyard, which soon attained a wide reputation. Old Cape Colony, by Mrs A. F. Trotter (See also:London, 1903), contains a See also:plan and sketches of Groot Constantia.

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