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...
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 | 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...
