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Bernardus Golf is a challenging golf course, designed by Kyle Phillips, who was also responsible for the design of world famous courses like Kingsbarns, The Grove and Yas Links.

Bernardus Golf was built as a heathland golf course, which makes it accessible to any golfer. A day at Bernardus gives you the ultimate feeling of peace, quiet and relaxation. Both on the course and the practice facilities; driving range, short-game area and putting greens.

More than three hundred oak trees give protection to the carefully planted vines at our Marinus vineyard, perfect for grapes from the Bordeaux region. This 36ha vineyard is in the Cachagua region in the upper Carmel Valley. Surrounded by the foothills of the Santa Lucia Mountains creating a unique microclimate. The mountains trap the heat during the day and protect the grapes from the rising ocean fog.

The altitude provides sufficient cooling at night making the region suitable for grapes that also do well in the Bordeaux region. The grapevines grow on clay and sandy loam. We grow mainly Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot grapes in the Marinus Vineyard, but Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot grapes are also grown in smaller quantities.

Bernardus Marinus “Ben” Pon was not only a Dutch businessman, but also a racing driver, and an Olympic clay pigeon shooter. From 1965 to 1988, Pon was one of the four directors of Pon Holdings, the company that housed all subsidiaries of the Pon family.