5 Co-operative shareholders.

 

Over 200 farms grow for FirstCape.

 

Top 12 under the Top 50 off trade brands in the UK.

What started out as a small group of 38 grape growers has now blossomed into a dynamic team of more than 200 neighbouring farmers.

These farmers lovingly produce our wines. They are close neighbours in the beautiful Breede River Valley, just an hour's drive from Cape Town, and are all co-owners of FirstCape Vineyards. We think this is the best way to guarantee the great quality FirstCape wines you drink everyday. Since these farmers are brand owners they care more about the wines, from vine to the retail shelf.

FirstCape has become one of the best-known and most popular South African wine brands in the UK. You can now find us in all high street supermarkets, as well as specialist off licences and in a range of European countries. Created in 2002 as a UK/SA joint venture brand to allow farmers and growers in South Africa to supply the UK.

Today FirstCape has 5 Co-operative shareholders and over 200 farms grow for the brand. FirstCape produces and bottles all its own wines to ensure maximum quality for you, the customer.

First Principle

The fact that the growers also co-own the brand is key to the long-term quality and consistency of the wines. This ensures that all FirstCape growers care about quality and value for the long term, This is unique and very important for a large South African brand.

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Primarily made in the Breede River Valley in South Africa, we also have growers around the world, including Australia, Italy, Eastern Europe and South America. 

  • Breede River Valley

    David Smit. Winemaker

    FirstCape (South Africa)

    I am a decendant from German immigrants who came to South Africa in 1683. We have a family farm on the West Coast (9th generation) and thus farming has always been in my blood. I used to help my father on a neighbouring farm distilling grappa from Muscat d'Alexandrie and Semillon.

    I worked as a winemaker at African Terroir before moving to Origin Wine. When a position opened with FirstCape I jumped at the opportunity to work with arguably the best team there is in the South African wine industry, if not the world.

  • A view out over the landscape around our growers vineyards in the Breede River Valley.

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