Van Loveren is an unusual name for a wine farm, and one tends to wonder on the origin thereof. A tract of land, on the banks of the Breede River 160 kilometres from Cape Town and between Bonnievale and Robertson, was once a large farm called "Goudmyn". Nicolaas Retief purchased one of these 28 hectare pieces of land for his son, Hennie this farm was simply called "Goudmyn F". Hennie's wife, Jean, a Van Zyl, a descendant of Guillaume van Zyl and his bride, Christina van Loveren, who arrived i...