The famend Morgenhof Wine Property within the Western Cape was offered to a European purchaser throughout a digital motion on 25 August 2021. The 329-year-old wine farm, the oldest property to ever be auctioned in South Africa was offered to the client for R52 million.
Greater than 2500 tuned into Excessive Road Public sale’s live-streamed digital public sale with bidding happening through Zoom, the Excessive Road app, reside stream from the property and telephonically.
Earlier than the public sale, registrations for the public sale got here from world wide with IOL reporting that consumers got here from South Africa, Australia, China, Germany, Belgium, Lesotho, India, Italy, France, England, Kenya, Canada and the USA.
The profitable bid was made telephonically by a purchaser from Europe, who’d desire to stay nameless till the 14-day sale affirmation interval is over.
With its viticulture traced again to 1692, the Morgenhof wine property lies on the slopes of the Simonsberg mountain simply outdoors Stellenbosch and has established itself as a good vineyard with a various vary.
The client can then be happy with their buy, with the sale together with the contents of the cellar in addition to all of the furnishings and trimming on the farm.
On prime of the pristinely restored 450m² predominant manor home includes 5 bedrooms, 5 bogs, a lounge, eating room and kitchen in addition to a wrap-around open terrace and a second manor home of 730m² elevated among the many vineyards, the sale additionally consists of:
- A 600-ton capability wine cellar
- Underground barrel fermentation corridor
- Wine tasting room and terrace;
- Restaurant
- Wedding ceremony chapel
- Convention venue with hooked up catering services
- Bistro and occasional store
- Workplace block
- Employees lodging of assorted varieties.
In response to Moneyweb, the sale was the biggest South African public sale marketing campaign ever run with 2.4 on-line million views. The present proprietor, Anne Cointreau, who initially moved from France to Morgenhof, want to see the property’s legacy proceed for an additional three centuries. Anne is ready to return to France to retire.
Have an inside look into Morgenhof property under.
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