Overgaauw has been in the ownership of a single family since it was originally settled by the ancestors of Abraham van Velden in 1783. Abraham himself set up as a farmer in 1905 on a portion of this land and named it for Elizabeth Overgaauw who married the first van Velden to arrive in South Africa from Holland.  He built his cellar in 1909 and the farm produced bulk wine until 1970. David Snr, who passed away in 2008, took over the management of the farm from his father in 1945. Shortly after