The past month marked an exciting change for Mooigezicht Estates, as the Company purchased Ou Buffelskraal Farm and we took over the management of the farm on 1 July. Ou Buffelskraal (also formerly known as Clovelly) was purchased from [...]

Above: The new premium brand telescopic tray and lid carton launched by Mooi this year for the Chinese market. For this harvest, Mooi has introduced the telescopic (two piece) carton to serve the Chinese premium market. The carton and [...]

Above: Mooigezicht Estates MD Francois Rossouw (right) and SATI Communications Manager Clayton Swart with grapes packed for the SATI promotional campaign. Below left: SATI promotional stem tags on Crimson. Mooi participated in the successful promotional programme for South African [...]

Protecting the harvest from possible rain. In preparation for the forthcoming harvest, we are currently installing plastic over the top of the vineyard rows of 38 hectares of Sweet Sapphire and MIDNIGHT BEAUTY® vineyards on Mooigezicht Estates.  

Following the passing of Mooigezicht Estates Founder and Chairman Stephanus Rossouw in September, the Mooigezicht Estates board has appointed non-executive board member Kobie Bekker as the Chairman of the company’s Board. Bekker served as a director of PricewaterhouseCoopers and [...]

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our Mooigezicht Estates chairman Stephanus Rossouw. Stephanus (78) passed away suddenly on 10 September. He is survived by his wife Laetitia, and his children Francois, Jeanne-Mari, Jeanine, Stephan [...]

During June and July our region has received excellent rainfall and successive thick snowfalls on the mountains in our valley. The good precipitation and cold weather is extremely good news for the dormancy of our grape vines and for [...]

This year, we are undertaking a considerable new task as we are currently installing overhead netting over 16.39ha of our vineyards. The overhead nets create a moderate microclimate in the vineyards which optimises the growing conditions of the vines. The [...]

As part of the Western Cape government’s Covid-19 response, on 6 May we received a visit from the Western Cape Minister of Health, Dr Nomafrench Mbombo. During her visit to the Hex River Valley, she visited Mooigezicht Estates and [...]

While the production, harvesting and packing of our quality grapes is being done by our trained and dedicated staff members, our human resources team are taking care of our staff members’ children while they are at work. We take [...]

Mooigezicht Estates is currently putting the finishing touches to a new cooling facility on the Estate in preparation for the forthcoming harvest (see photo above). This new facility has the capacity to cool and store 60 pallets of packed [...]

  Above: - Mon Repos management couple Hanrick and Rachelle Minnie (centre), receiving their certificate of long service recognition from Mooigezicht Estates Chairman Stephanus Rossouw (left) and MD Francois Rossouw (right). Hanrick and Rachelle Minnie have been managing the [...]

Francois Rossouw Jr. recently returned from his three month internship at IFG grape breeders in California. As the post of production manager at Eilandia recently became available, Francois has been appointed as the production manager on this production unit. [...]

One of the main sources of our surface water supply is the Roode Elsberg Dam in the Hex River mountains. On 12 September a group of Mooigezicht Estates management and staff members visited the dam to celebrate and give [...]

Above: Angelique (left) is pictured with her mom Petro Swarts. At the start of 2017 the management of Mooigezicht Estates undertook to sponsor the tertiary education studies of the top matriculant achiever for the year per school from two [...]

As our region is in the grip of a multi-year drought and our water supplies will be reduced for our forthcoming production season, Mooigezicht Estates is currently implementing a thorough and proactive water saving strategy in order to manage [...]

Above: Mooigezicht Directors Guillaume Rossouw, Nico Verster, Stephanus Rossouw (Chairman) and Francois Rossouw (MD) celebrating the milestone of this season’s bountiful harvest. The 2017 final harvest volumes have been the highest Mooigezicht Estates has ever achieved and this also [...]

Above: Gareth (centre left) and Max (centre right) with Ian (left) and Nadia (right) Prins in the pack house admiring our beautiful grapes. In Late January Mooigezicht Estates received a visit from Great Fruit Adventurer travellers Max MacGillivray and [...]

  Results of our SIZA Ethical Audit: ZERO % non-compliance! During October Mooigezicht Estates completed the SIZA (Sustainability Initiative South Africa) Ethical Audit. (SIZA is the universal, globally accepted South African Ethical Auditing Standard and oversees the fruit industry’s [...]

During the previous season we had installed the Soft Pro scale packing system in one of our pack houses as a trial. The trial proved very successful and more recently we successfully expanded the Soft Pro system to two [...]

In 2016 we are replacing 21ha seedless grapes. As our production now consists of 100% seedless grapes, we have now reached the point where we are replacing seedless grapes with seedless grapes. By 2019 our vineyards will be 50% [...]

In order to ensure that we have sufficient stock of the wide range of packing materials required by our receivers during the harvest, we have constructed a large new storage facility which is our dedicated packing material storage and [...]

During 2015 we converted the irrigation systems on two of our production units to Motorola systems, one of the best systems available internationally, and we are implementing the same conversion of a further two of our production units during [...]

Bonne Esperance Farm is a 30,43ha farm north of De Doorns and is located very close to our head office and to our other production units. This farm was the original Rossouw family farm in the Hex River Valley, [...]

  Total production figures 2015 Our total production for the 2015 harvest amounted to 1 273 606 cartons (4.5 kg equivalents). This was in excess our estimate for the harvest. This has exceeded our original harvest estimate of 1 [...]

  During the 2015 we have achieved the highest productions per hectare to date! Our ten year average yield per hectare is 4800 and during the past harvest Mooigezicht Estates achieved a yield of 5305 per hectare.

  In October 2014 Mooigezicht Estates was nominated Western Cape Farm of the Year and MD Francois Rossouw was nominated Western Cape Farmer of the Year. This was taken at the Western Cape award ceremony last year.