Meet Our Winemakers

Johan Esterhuizen
CELLAR MASTER
With more than 20 years of experience in winemaking, Johan is responsible for the preparation and bottling of 90% of the wines for packaged products.
He is a healthy, hardworking, and calm/peaceful person who likes to read suspense stories after hours. He prefers books over movies. He loves to relax with something in a glass while watching the Kalahari sunset. He also

Frikkie Du Plessis
WINEMAKER
A small fish in a big pond, Frikkie is one of the newer additions to the Winemaking team, with his maiden harvest done as a winemaker at Upington Cellar in 2021.
In his spare time, Frikkie drinks wine, talks about wine and watches videos, about … well, wine. Occasionally you could catch him making music, usually around friends or his cat, and yes, with a glass of wine.

Frikkie Du Plessis
JUNIOR WINEMAKER