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Waterkloof

Waterkloof is an independent family-owned biodynamic farm. The vineyard is perched on the ocean-facing windswept slopes of the Schepenberg just 2.5 miles from The Atlantic Ocean on the coastal outskirts of Stellenbosch. The farm is chemical-free certified biodynamic (one of only two in South Africa) and astonishingly eschews the use of tractors in the vineyards preferring to work with with six Percheron horses. The only winemaking addition in the cellar is a small dose of sulphur dioxide as a preservative before bottling. Following 24 years as a UK based wine importer and 20 of those simultaneously making his own wines in France (with other people's grapes) Anglo-Frenchman Paul Boutinot finally found the vineyard he wished to call his own in 2004. To the surprise of many however instead of plumping for the familiar and well-trodden path of the Loire or Rhone Valleys he gambled and backed the vast potential of South Africa and more specifically Waterkloof. Six years after crafting Waterkloof's first wines in their own award-winning cellar on the farm their two flaghship Circle of Life wines are already served in many of the world's Top 100 restaurants including Dinner by Heston Blumenthal Zuma The Ledbury and Azurmendi.