Steenkamp, De Bruyn

De Bruyn grew up in the Cape winelands on his family’s wine estate. He is a lawyer by trade with a Master’s degree in International trade law, and is also a member of the Institute of Cape Wine Masters. He has two decades’ global experience in the wine industry which...

Krige, Hymli (resigned)

Hymli’s love for wine is rooted deeply in the valley of Jonkershoek, where she grew up on a small wine farm. She studied languages and journalism at the University of Stellenbosch (during which time was exposed mostly to Roodeberg and Tassenberg). After joining the...

Green, Karen

Since 1999, Karen Green is the general manager at Wine Direct, a specialist catalogue-based wine retail company she joined in 1997 on the sales and client services side as a Catering Management graduate from the Technikon Witwatersrand Hotel School. Her current focus...

Gold, Brad

Brad Gold qualified as South Africa’s youngest Cape Wine Master at the age of 25, started his career at L’Avenir Wine Estate as a vineyard worker in August 2001 and is very thankful to Marc Wiehe and Francois Naude for the opportunity to work on the farm where he was...

Galpin, Vashti (Dr)

Vashti Galpin has a doctorate in Computer Sciences from the University of Edinburgh, and lectured at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. She is currently a researcher at the University of Edinburgh and conducts research in the area of theoretical...