In 1692 Willem Barend Lubbe, a German settler, began farming the site he had been granted by Simon van der Stel on the Bottelary Hills overlooking False Bay. He named the farm De Wolwedans, which means “The Dance of Wolves”, because he mistook the packs of jackals which roamed the countryside in those early days of European settlement for wolves.

The Marais family finished the wine cellar in 1802 to enable wine production to start.

Maria’s daughter Anna Margaretha married Johannes Henoch Neethling in 1825 and he was made joint owner along with Maria’s youngest son, Petrus Johannes Marais. Soon afterwards Petrus sold his portion of the farm to Johannes Henoch Neethling making him the sole owner, and De Wolwedans was changed to Neethlings’s Hof.

In 1963 Jan Momberg bought the farm.

In July 1999 Distillers Corporation joined forces with Schreiber to form Lusan Premium Wines. Lusan was responsible for the farming activities and production of wine from three farms previously owned by Distillers, namely Le Bonheur, Uitkyk and Alto, together with the four farms owned by Schreiber (Neethlingshof, Stellenzicht, Olives and Hillandale) which traded under the brand names of Neethlingshof Estate and Stellenzicht Vineyards.

Neethlingshof has been sold to Iwayini, the South African subsidiary of GCF (Grands Chais de France), a company owned and run by the Helfrich family.