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Groot Constantia is the largest wine estate in Constantia and the one most geared to tourists.
Its big pull is that it retains the rump of Van der Stel's original estate, as well as the original buildings, though its portrayal of life in a seventeenth-century colonial chateau makes scant reference to the slave labour that underpinned its operations.
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The Manor House, a quintessential Cape Dutch building, was Van der Stel's original home, modified at the end pf the eighteenth century by the French architect Thibault.
Walking straight through it, down the ceremonial axis, you'll come to the cellar, fronted with a carved pediment, depicting a riotous bacchanalia, which represents fertility.
The substantial grounds of Groot Constantia also make for for good walks.
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Smaller in scale than Groot Constantia, Klein Constantia offers free wine tasting in less regimented conditions than at the bigger estate and, although the buildings are far humbler, the setting is equally beautiful.
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Something of a curiosity is its Vin de Constance, the re-creation of an eighteenth-century Constantia wine that was the favourite of Napoleon, Frederick the Great and Bismarck.
It's a delicious dessert wine, packaged in a replica of the original bottle, and makes a unique souvenir.
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