When asked why he became a winemaker, particularly since he was born and raised in the suburbs of Johannesburg, he replies honestly, “My feet are firmly rooted in the soil and wine flows through my veins!”
Brendan’s insatiable passion for winemaking and viticulture was born at the age of 13 on the family’s annual holidays to the Western Cape. He explains how his parents would explore one wine farm after another with him and his sister in tow. He tells of how the magical combination of “imposing mountain ranges” as well as the “intrigue of damp cellars with their sweet aromatics of oak” ignited his passion for wine farming. This passion has continued to burn brightly ever since.