Plettenberg Bay

I went to a Pinot presentation and workshop hosted at Bramon and run by Jan…

Farming is really hard work. It takes a particular kind of stamina to do field…

The scale of wine farming is like everything else: as you produce more, so your…

Miraculously, almost all of our first vintage was sold before we could blink.…

Pinot’s real home is Burgundy and if you know the grape you probably harbour…

In between spraying and suckering (stripping excess side-shoots), you need to…

The vineyard started to look like something. Especially when we stood at the…

Because we had started so late in the winter, the vines were already in…

We identified a part of the farm which we thought would be best-suited for the…

For the last twenty years I’ve been teaching at Bay College (now Greenwood Bay…