We’ve got our fingers in a number of local and international pies because we believe in their quality, craft and value. Through his extensive travels and industry networks Bruce collaborates on a range of projects from Spanish wine to craft cider.
Our philosophy is to invest our expertise, time and sometimes funds, in a range of products, projects and collaborations that we believe are exceptional. The type of people we collaborate with inevitably share a similar philosophical outlook on life.
La Báscula is an adventurous Spanish winemaking collaboration with my good mate and Master of Wine, Ed Adams. The name “La Báscula” refers to an old-fashioned pair of weighing scales and represents the balance between the indigenous Spanish varieties we love and the insight into modern winemaking we bring to the party. Read More.
The Cluver&Jack Cider Company is owned by the Cluver and the Jack families, both renowned winemaking families in the Western Cape, South Africa. The Jacks were one of the first families in South Africa to import and plant cider apple trees in South Africa (at Henley-on-Klip). They were early cider producers and amongst the first to export cider.
The Cluver & Jack ciders are made from De Rust Estate apples in the Paul Cluver Winery, using a generations-old Jack family methodology. The Cluver family own De Rust Farm in Elgin and have done so for five generations. Pioneers of community upliftment, they grow delicious apples and top quality grapes, which under the Paul Cluver label, make some of South Africa’s best wines. Read More.
This range of wines exists to allow winemaking imagination and passion free reign… these wines are disinterested in market trends or the whims of wine writers and commentators – we craft these wines to dance that beautiful dance whose beat is the seasons and whose music is luck. Read More.
Human culture started here at the tip of Africa, despite being off the charts. It is fitting that something as culturally rooted as wine should thrive here, along with our shared birth of imagination. This inspires my “Off the Charts” range of wines, crafted from grape varieties and regions that are South Africa’s viticultural cornerstones. The labels draw inspiration from the untamed majesty of our wilderness wonderland and the symbolic Basotho blanket. Read More.
Great wines are always more than the product of fermented juice from delicious grapes. They always have stories. Some are the result of divine intervention, many have remarkable histories, a few are crafted by noteworthy characters and some are the result of unlikely strokes of luck. Mary le Bow draws a little from all of the above but is different because it is a wine powered by the energy of memory. Read More.
Secret Safari is about taking care with the environment while making delicious wine.
We partner with like-minded organisations to support their environmental and social upliftment programs.
A donation from each bottle sale will be made to the Kariega Foundation. Read More.
From the heart of the Swartland, where the wind never quite settles and the air carries the scent of drought, adventure and resilience have sculpted the landscape with winter wheat and old bushvine vineyards. A European wine writer once compared this wild, arid region to the untamed frontier of the American Wild West, a place where only the hardy thrive. It’s here on the rolling rugged hills facing the sea, that Tumbleweed was born—a wine that captures the essence of this pioneering spirit. With every bottle, Tumbleweed reflects the raw, unyielding beauty of the Swartland. Read More.
Inspired by the diversity of our Winelands – especially our extreme soils and climate—and tied together by a love of nature, a good braai and a lekker kuier. Far from the Crowd Extreme Vineyard wines are sourced from wind-ravaged dry-grown, old, uncommercial, battered, unnoticed, but brilliant vineyards in out of the way places like Elim, the Overberg Highlands, the warm Swartland and the high slopes of the Piekernierskloof – as well as many others. Read More.
