Dan Really Likes Wine

Amine Ghanem left Lebanon on a champagne pilgrimage that has taken him to Dom Perignon, and the winemaking team behind one of the most iconic wines in the world.

Khensani Nobanda is both South Africa’s most successful marketer, and the driving force behind her boutique wine brand Kebo Noir - and has plenty of ideas about how to bring South African wine and marketing together.

After scrambling between cellars, juggling jobs, and starting a family while kicking off her eponymous wine brand, Jessica Saurwein marks 10 years of winemaking - and an exciting new chapter.

Former Cape Winemakers Guild protégé Gynore Fredericks found a friend and mentor in Andrea Mullineux, which inspired the creation of the groundbreaking Great Heart wine range.

The world knows MasterChef and Ultimate Braaimaster judge Pete Goffe-Wood as one of South Africa’s great chefs, but he’s every bit as passionate about wine.

From an island hotel school to the man behind Southern Sun’s vast cellar, sommelier Miguel Chan joins the podcast this week.

The Swartland’s quintessential love story: young South African winemaker, meets young Californian winemaker in France, they fall in love, decide to move South Africa and give the local industry a crack - and now sit as the first couple of South African wine. Chris and Andrea Mullineux’s wonderful story on #DRLW this week.

The West Coast is South Africa’s most exciting new wine region - and Sakkie Mouton and his cult favourite ‘Revenge Of The Crayfish’ chenin blanc is a big part of the West Coast success story

DURBAN'S AUSTRIAN TREASURE: How did an Austrian waitress working in Berlin find herself an unlikely champion of South African wine in a fine dining restaurant in a living room in Durban? For Johanna Richter, it all started with a good looking guy peeling potatoes in the restaurant kitchen...

THE FARMER WHO MAKES WINE: It took a while to explain to Callie Louw what a podcast is, and his own copy will be delivered on a TDK cassette - but while he might be averse to technology, the man behind the 100-point Porseleinberg syrah has no such issues with wine, and is as masterful in the vineyards working the farm, as he is in his Swartland cellar.