Linton Park Wines

About Winery and Wines

In 1699 Governor Willem Adriaan van der Stel granted De Slange Rivier farm to Louis Fourie, a French Huguenot. The deed dated 28 February 1699 has been preserved and forms part of the Manor House’s art and antique furniture collection. He not only developed the farm’s agricultural landscape but planted vineyards and was highly regarded for his pioneering winemaking in Wellington. He is also credited as being the forefather of the Fourie family tree. Not unlike numerous other wine farms in South Africa who trace their history to Huguenot founders, Linton Park has a proud and honourable birth right. The Estate was purchased by Camellia Plc in 1995. The United Kingdom based multinational is a global group, listed on the London Stock Exchange and employs over 76 000 people worldwide. Camellia’s interests include tea gardens, macadamia and avocado plantations in the agriculture and horticulture sectors, private banking and financial services, food storage and distribution and engineering. Our graceful single story gabled Cape Dutch Manor House was built in 1809. The architectural features reflect the construction flair which was typical at that time. As the French born architect Louis Michel Thibault who had designed numerous beautiful buildings in the Cape, influenced the layout of several highly prized manor houses in and around the wine lands. Restoration of the Manor House’s interior and exterior was undertaken in 1995 when Camellia Plc bought the property. The house was refurnished with charming antique pieces of both Cape and English origin. Various wardrobes, chests, four poster beds, musical instruments, house hold items and the single largest collection of coal-heated clothing irons in South Africa are held along with collectables from the property’s three-hundred-year history.