Bovlei Cellar acquires new brand
2010-03-25
THE BOVLEI wine cellar in Wellington, the second oldest co-operative cellar in South Africa, has acquired an existing brand, Thomas Kipling. The new brand, named after the celebrated South African war hero and humanitarian, comprises five wines. Thomas Kipling enlisted in the South African Army in the early months of the Second World War and saw action as an air gunner with the South African Air Force in Egypt and Italy. He participated in two dangerous missions over Nazi-occupied Warsaw in 1944, of dropping supplies and ammunition by bombers to the Polish resistance, from which few returned alive. For his heroic actions, he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and two high-ranking Polish medals. He was promoted to the rank of Captain and was demobilised in 1946. He died in 2007 in East London. “We are pleased to have acquired a brand of fine wines named after a patriotic South African. Just as Thomas Kipling provided quality wartime service to his fellow South Africans, so too has Bovlei Cellars provided quality wines to South Africans for more than a century. “I am sure these characterful wines will find favour with our consumers,” says Herman le Roux, general manager of Bovlei Cellars.
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