Voyager Estate’s VOC Collection wines are single vintage wines inspired by the season. The name, VOC Collection, pays tribute to the role that the Dutch East India Company — Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie (VOC) — played in the exploration of the Australian coastline. Founded 20 March 1602, the company wa s granted a monopoly on trade east of the Cape of Good Hope by the Dutch Republic and was authorised to establish colonies in the New World. It became the largest trading company of its kind and in 1606 its ship “Duyfken” made the first European landing at Cape York on the Western Australian coast.

Voyager Estate’s Cape Dutch cellar door and gardens are inspired by the wine farms near Cape Town, South Africa, which was originally a supply port for VOC ships heading for Asia via Australia’s west coast. It is this link that has encouraged us to name a new range of wines, available exclusively at our Margaret River Cellar Door, under the banner of ‘VOC Collection’.