1820

Unlocking Bellevue’s Winemaking Legacy

The original Cellar was a very basic structure built by Johannes ‘Jan’ Julius Mechau in 1820. It was stated on his death certificate that his profession was a wine grower, when he passed away on the 17th of April 1835”. In 1943, Pieter Krige (P.K.) Morkel expanded the original cellar where he personally made between 800 & 900 leaguers of wine annually, which he sold to Stellenbosch farmers Winery.