Constantia (wine)

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Constantia is a South African dessert wine. It is made from muscat de Frontignan grapes grown in the district of Constantia, south of Cape Town.

The wine was immensely popular in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and was exported to Europe. However, production of Constantia dessert wine ceased in the late nineteenth century following the devastation of South African vineyards by the phylloxera louse. Production resumed at Klein Constantia in the mid-1990s and at Groot Constantia in 2003.