Ex Animo Wine Co.

A quick chat with Chef and co-owner of La Tete restaurant here in Cape Town about life running a restaurant in the weeks leading up to the nation-wide lockdown we are still currently in here in South Africa.

A quick zoom call with Craig Wessels of Restless River to find out more about how he is harvesting and making wine under a nation-wide covid19 lockdown here in South Africa.

This episode we have Mick Craven on the podcast. Mick, originally from Australia, and his South African wife Jeanine make Craven Wines – a négociant-style wine business based in Stellenbosch. The Cravens work exclusively within the Stellenbosch WO, working with a select group of grape growers and making a set of single vineyard wines in such a way as to “let the grapes do the talking” as Mick puts...

A chat with winemag.co.za editor and leading wine commentator in South Africa, Christian Eedes. Christian takes us through a (very) brief modern history of South African wine, and then gives his take on what is happening in the fine wine industry in South Africa currently. A State of the Nation of Wine if you will. A list of plantings by variety in South Africa can be found here: https://www.insta...

On farming grapes in the Swartland, Franziska Wickens of Waterval Farm by Ex Animo Wine Co.

Recorded 19 July 2019 A really interesting chat with Tyrrel Myburgh of Joostenberg Wines in Paarl WO, South Africa. He is the 5th generation Myburgh on the farm and started to convert to organic viticulture in 2003 becoming totally certified in 2010. Organic viticulture is still very rare in South Africa, so I decided to chat to him to get his story and to sort the facts from the fiction about org...

Recorded 19th June 2019. A really interesting chat with Allan Mullins, who is celebrating 30 years with Woolworths next year. Allan is definitely one of the "good guys" of the wine industry here in South Africa. A gentleman and a deep repository of knowledge about the people and wines of the last 40 or so years in South Africa. Woolworths operates in a completely different philosophical space than...

A very quick chat with Wikus Human, sommelier of Marble and Saint Restaurants in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Recorded 1st June 2019, Infanta, Western Cape, South Africa A chat with Chris and Andrea Mullineux (of Mullineux Wines) about the Swartland Revolution, an annual wine festival that ran from 2010-2014 that has and continues to have a huge impact on the wine scene in South Africa.

For this episode I chat to Gosia Zielińska, manager and sommelier at The Pot Luck Club, Cape Town.

Recorded 21st March 2019 Craig Hawkins, owner with wife Carla and winemaker TESTALONGA – leading proponent of natural wine in SA. Craig as he and his wife Carla are to my knowledge the first people to build a very successful independent business making exclusively natural wine in South Africa. Many other winemakers have used them (and continue to use them) as inspiration to start their own journey...

This episode is a conversation with South African viticulturist, Rosa Kruger. Tannie Rosa, as I call her, is a force to be reckoned with. An ex-lawyer and proud Afrikaner, Rosa has travelled extensively throughout the grape-growing world and is now one of the most important voices on viticulture in South Africa. She is a consultant and has worked with some of the most iconic names of modern South...

A recent conversation with Roland Peens of Wine Cellar, one of the best wine retailers in South Africa. We covered a lot of ground about how he got into wine, the transformation of South African wine and the South African wine market over the last 15 or so years. Established in 2001, Wine Cellar is one of South Africa's finest online wine merchants. They offer the top-end local wines and also spec...

Recorded on 22nd November 2018 in Hermanus, Western Cape, South Africa.

Recorded on 22 January 2019 at Wine Cellar, Cape Town, at the pre-release tasting for the trade.

3rd and final part of my chat with Tom Lubbe of Matassa on the morning of his presentation at the Swartland Heritage Festival in Paternoster on 02.Nov.2018.. I wanted principally to talk to him about his time in wine in South Africa and in particular setting up The Observatory. We touched many subjects and we chatted for longer than planned, so I have split it up. Tom is a mentor of some of the mo...

Part 2 of 3 of my chat with Tom Lubbe of Matassa on the morning of his presentation at the Swartland Heritage Festival in Paternoster on 02.Nov.2018.. I wanted principally to talk to him about his time in wine in South Africa and in particular setting up The Observatory. We touched many subjects and we chatted for longer than planned, so I have split it up. Tom is a mentor of some of the most exci...

Part 1 of my chat with Tom Lubbe of Matassa on the morning of his presentation at the Swartland Heritage Festival in Paternoster on 02.Nov.2018.. I wanted principally to talk to him about his time in wine in South Africa and in particular setting up The Observatory. We touched many subjects and we chatted for longer than planned, so I have split it up. Tom is a mentor of some of the most exciting...

Audio from the presentation by Taras Ochota on Saturday 5th November 2018 at the Swartland Heritage Festival in Paternoster moderated by Ex Animo's David Clarke.

Craig and Anne Wessels produce top-class Chardonnay and Cabernet wines from their small farm in the Upper Hemel en Aarde Valley in South Africa. Recorded after a wine trade lunch at Farro in Illovo, Johannesburg (apologies for the slight background noise) on 22 Oct 2018. Craig talks about how a model and a TV producer created what is now Restless River; how he and Anne find meaning in tending vine...

Listen to Craig Wessels, winemaker and co-owner of Restless River Wines talk about the new Restless River Main Road & Dignity Cabernet Sauvignon 2015 from their farm in the Upper Hemel en Aarde Valley in South Africa. This audio was recorded at a release tasting for the wine trade on the farm on 20 Oct 2018.