White, Cathy

Dissertation Topic: The creation and development of an estate wine and the positioning thereof in the market place Other Publications   New Zealand road trip (personal article) File size: 1.53 MB Download...

Pells, Elsie

Elsie was a founder member, in 1983, of The Jonkershuis Wine Tasters based at Spier with the owner of the farm, Niel Joubert as patron. Great figures in the South African wine landscape, such as Frans Malan, Spatz Sperling and Niel Joubert became mentors. The passion...

De Bruyn, Greg

From a pre-eminent position in the beer-swigging, dart-playing, rugby-watching student community in Johannesburg, Greg rapidly descended into the nefarious underworld of wine snobbery when he joined the Cape Wine Academy’s programme in 1992. The catalyst was a...

Barker, Margie

Margie entered the wine world in 1986, when she did CWA’s Introductory Wine Course, after completing a part-time MBA through Wits Business School in Johannesburg. She was looking for something that would be fun to study, and as far removed from business management, as...

Bargmann, Chris

Chris Bargmann is a UK-based professional geologist where he runs his own geological consultancy, Sodor Geosciences Limited (www.sodorgeo.com). He has spent much of his career working in the mining and mineral exploration industries and has travelled extensively...