Meet the Winemaker

The people shaping South African wine.

Long-form profiles, original portraiture and interviews with the winemakers behind the bottles.

Region

Wine farm

Wine style

Year

3 profiles

Klipkop Wines · Hemel-en-Aarde

Twenty-two harvests on the same clay-and-shale ridge, and she still walks every row before she picks.

Bothashoek Estate · Bot River

From cellar hand to cellarmaster in a decade, making some of the most honest Syrah in the Overberg.

Stilwater Vineyards · Elgin

A cool-climate obsessive picking at 3am to keep every gram of acid the valley gives him.