THE rise of the west coast

From an island hotel school to the man behind Southern Sun’s vast cellar, sommelier Miguel Chan joins the podcast this week.

The Swartland’s quintessential love story: young South African winemaker, meets young Californian winemaker in France, they fall in love, decide to move South Africa and give the local industry a crack - and now sit as the first couple of South African wine. Chris and Andrea Mullineux’s wonderful story on…

DURBAN'S AUSTRIAN TREASURE: How did an Austrian waitress working in Berlin find herself an unlikely champion of South African wine in a fine dining restaurant in a living room in Durban? For Johanna Richter, it all started with a good looking guy peeling potatoes in the restaurant kitchen…

THE FARMER WHO MAKES WINE: It took a while to explain to Callie Louw what a podcast is, and his own copy will be delivered on a TDK cassette - but while he might be averse to technology, the man behind the 100-point Porseleinberg syrah has no such issues with…

FROM HEADBOY TO WINEMAKER: The eccentric, eclectic heartbeat of the Swartland Revolution, Adi Badenhorst’s journey from wine family in Constantia, via a plum Stellenbosch job he got fired from, to making wine that travels the world to considerable acclaim, is as entertaining as the laidback winemaker himself. TAG: Adi Badenhorst,…