HISTORIC WINES

Historic Wines of the Cape (Pty.) Limited (HWC) was established in 2000, as a Wine Warehousing and Distribution Services Company, at the initiative of Hein Koegelenberg, CEO of La Motte Wine Estate and Leopard's Leap Family Vineyards, and his father-in-law, industrialist (the late) Dr. Anton Rupert... The objective was to establish an undertaking that would operate mainly as (a) a services company and (b) a distribution company. It was to become the premier distribution agent for noble South African wines, internationally and locally, providing a professional, cost-effective service to the three historic Rupert wine farms in the Franschhoek Valley, namely La Motte Estate, L'Ormarins and Fredericksburg (today Rupert & Rothschild Vignerons) . Symbolic of the historic association, the foundation-dated gables of these farms - Fredericksburg (1690), L'Ormarins (1694) and La Motte (1695)- are featured in the HWC logo.