“A good wine to everyone is a great wine to no one. And that, for me, is the essence of what I am trying to achieve behind my Cape Winemakers Guild Auction wines: wines that are rare, wines that can provoke your thoughts, your feelings, your emotions.”
Hailing from San Francisco, USA, Andrea studied viticulture and oenology at UC Davis before working at Cakebread, Viader and El Molino wineries in the Napa Valley. She first came to South Africa in 2004 to work a six-month stint at Waterford, and then moved on to Châteauneuf-du-Pape where, on the same trip, she met her husband Chris Mullineux.
In 2007, they set up their Swartland-based winery, Mullineux Family Wines. Andrea’s focus is on dry-farmed Mediterranean varieties produced as naturally and classically as possible. Since their first release, her wines have received consistent critical praise locally and internationally in publications such as The Wine Advocate and the Platter’s Wine Guide. When Andrea is not hard at work in the cellar, her energies flow into her two children, veggie garden and the kitchen where she loves cooking up a storm, glass of wine in hand.