How South Africa’s Franschhoek Has Become a Hot Wine-World Destination

With a stroke of his royal quill in October 1685, King Louis XIV of France inadvertently set South Africa up to become one of winemaking’s centers of excellence. By signing the Edict of Fontainebleau, the Sun King set off a mass exodus of Huguenots from the country. And while plenty immigrated to the Netherlands, England, and what would become the United States, many took their winemaking skills with them to South Africa. By the early 19th century, one of the areas they settled in had…