wine farmer, noun phrase

Origin:
South African DutchShow more Translation of wine boer (see Boer sense 1 b), from South African Dutch wynboer.
A farmer who produces grapes for wine-making, and who may also make wine; wine boer, see Boer sense 1 b.
1827 Reports of Commissioners upon Finances at Cape of G.H. II. 81The practical inconvenience that has resulted to the wine farmer of being prohibited from disposing of a smaller quantity of wine than a half aum, or nineteen gallons, without the pagter’s licence, has led to certain exemptions being granted.
1884 Act 18 in Stat. of Cape of G.H. (1887) I. 1035Wine farmer means a farmer who cultivates vines on land in his own occupation and who produces wine from grapes grown on such vines.
1920 K.M. Jeffreys tr. of Memorandum of Commissary J.A. de Mist 176The desperate wine-farmer had..been seen knocking the pegs out of his barrels, and allowing the precious wine to run to waste.
1923 O.E.A. Schreiner in Cape Times 18 Aug. 3The sinking valley with its sprinkling of wine farms.
1924 F.E.M. Young (title)The Wine Farm.
1926 E. Prov. Herald 23 Feb. 7Did honorary members think that the wine farmer was such a fool as to give the tot to his labourer to make him drunk and incapable of work?
1967 W.A. De Klerk White Wines 102Successful wine farming begins here.
1967 W.A. De Klerk White Wines 110These older wine farms have an appeal that every wine lover understands.
1971 B. Biermann Red Wine 11Since some poets give of their best in exile, some writers on wine may well be frustrated wine farmers.
1971 B. Biermann Red Wine 104Professor Perold suggested..that Uitkyk should rather be developed as a wine farm.
1981 P. Dane Great Houses of Constantia 129When Dirk Gysbert Cloete owned ‘Klein Constantia’ it was not an imposing establishment, but a simple wine farm.
1992 Radio South Africa 15 MayCape Wine farmers have launched their second invasion of the English market.
1992 Argus 3 Sept. 11The Meerlust estate..is a national monument...Numerous sales of Cape wine farms to foreigners had caused waves in the industry.
A farmer who produces grapes for wine-making, and who may also make wine; wine boer, see Boer sense 1 b.
Derivatives:
So wine farm  noun phrase, a vineyard; cf. estate sense 2; wine farming  verbal noun.
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