by Jo-Ann Corbett | May 12, 2021 | Featured Winemaker
Sam Dunlevy started on the wine path at a young age, with his parents planting a vineyard on the farm he grew up on, in Willunga. He was 12 at the time, with it having significant enough influence to see him embark on his winemaking degree at the tender age of 17. He...
by Jo-Ann Corbett | May 11, 2021 | Featured Winemaker
Berg Herring situated in the beautiful Sellicks Beach in South Australia opened their cellar door on boxing day 2020. The cellar door is located in Sellicks Beach in a former Methodist Church built in 1862. It is just a stone’s throw down the road from the...
by Jo-Ann Corbett | Apr 28, 2021 | Featured Winemaker
JC hails from the Old World – Switzerland, to be exact-where he spent his childhood holidays playing in his grandmother’s vineyards on the northern shores of Lake Bienne. At the tender age of 14 he decided to become a winemaker and he was all of 20 when he...
by Jo-Ann Corbett | Apr 14, 2021 | Featured Winemaker
Woman in Wine After completing a Bachelor of Science in Viticulture and Oenology from Curtin University, Adair Davies joined the Millbrook team in 2015 where she worked closely with the previous chief winemaker Damian Hutton. In 2020, Adair was promoted to Senior...
by Jo-Ann Corbett | Apr 7, 2021 | Featured Winemaker
Francois Roode was born in Namibia but his parents moved to Cape Town when he was just nine years old. His interest in viticulture and winemaking bloomed early, and when he finished school, he enrolled at Elsenburg Agricultural College to study viticulture and...
by Jo-Ann Corbett | Mar 24, 2021 | Featured Winemaker
Growing up in Paarl, Matthew’s interest in wine started at a young age. After high school he went to work in wine regions across the world, including Switzerland, France, California, Australia and New Zealand. Only when he returned home did he study at Elsenburg...
