Mitchell, Andy (deceased, 1954 – 2014)

Andy and his wife Vikki had a sail manufacturing business in Cape Town which exported sails to eight different countries and they were also the official sail manufacturer for Shosholoza, the South African America’s Cup Team entry. Andy was a garagiste producer since...

Weaver, Meryl

Meryl qualified and practiced as a conveyancer and lectured at the Rhodes University law school. When she moved to the Cape, she decided to give up her law career and focus on wine, something she had always enjoyed. She has completed all the Cape Wine Academy courses...

Salamon, András (Dr)

András is a technology entrepreneur and helped to establish several successful companies. He discovered the winelands when attending the University of Cape Town, and started learning more seriously about wine as part of the Turing Tipplers wine club at the University...

Roediger, Andy (Dr)

Dr Andy Roediger heads an analytical laboratory that tests plastics, rubbers and paints at the University of Stellenbosch. About eight years ago, his daughter asked him to join her in attending the Diploma Wine Course at the Wine Academy, as he had much experience in...

Mouton, Gerda (resigned)

Gerda’s career in the Wine Industry started in 1988 when she was thrown into the deep end by her consultant winemaker, Jan Boland Coetzee (owner of Vriesenhof) to taste wines for blending and preparing the yeast inoculations at their winery in Franschhoek at the time....

De Klerk, Chris

Chris is currently the Wine Ambassador for Distell, focusing mainly on fine wines and has been a lecturer on all courses offered by the Cape Wine Academy as well as on a broad hospitality industry sphere. Admitted as a Cape Wine Master in 2007, his research project...