by Jo-Ann Corbett | Mar 25, 2022 | Featured Winery, Featured Winemaker, SA Wine, South African Wine, Uncategorized
Stellenrust Wine Estate located in Stellenbosch, South Africa was established in 1928 and has produced superb quality wines ever since. The Estate is 400ha in size, with approx. 200ha planted to vines. Half of the vineyard stretches over an area known as the “Golden...
by Jo-Ann Corbett | Aug 10, 2021 | Featured Winemaker
Dirk Coetzee grew up in the small village of Hoekville, in the Knysna Forest on South Africa’s Garden Coast. Exploring mountains, cycling and especially surfing has always been an important part of his life. Today Dirk Coetzee is known as a winemaking trail blazer,...
by Jo-Ann Corbett | Aug 4, 2021 | Featured Winemaker
As one of the founding members of the Cape Winemakers Guild, celebrated winemaker at Rustenberg for over 20 years and twice named John Platter’s Winemaker of the Year, Etienne Le Riche is as layered as the wines he creates… at once reserved, yet confident, careful to...
by Jo-Ann Corbett | Jul 21, 2021 | Featured Winemaker
David Josephus Nieuwoudt was born on 9 May 1972 in the Citrusdal Hospital – the youngest of five children. During 1990 he finished school in Clanwilliam. After completing a year in the old SA Army, David joined the Elsenburg Agricultural College where he...
by Jo-Ann Corbett | Jul 14, 2021 | Featured Winemaker
Abrie and his sister, Jeanette, are the ninth-generation descendants of French Huguenots who arrived in South Africa from the Loire Valley in France in 1688. Abrie and Jeanette are willing to do whatever it takes to continue their family legacy – making wine. Abrie...
by Jo-Ann Corbett | May 19, 2021 | Featured Winemaker
Rob Mack was raised in Adelaide and studied at the University of Technology in Sydney where he obtained a Business Degree. He worked for Deloitte, but the lure of wine fostered in Sydney always nagged at him. It was only in 2005, that Rob decided on the path to make...
