Jordan farm has a 300 year history, but husband and wife team Gary and Kathy Jordan have been making wine here since 1993. Their story doesn`t begin there, though; Gary`s parents had acquired the farm a decade earlier and embarked on an extensive replanting programme. So Gary and later Kathy had a good idea what was in store for them, and before settling for good at Jordan they spent two years getting experience working internationally.

With vineyards at elevations of between 160 and 410 meters, and on slopes facing north, west, south and east, there is fruit for every bottling here. Soils range from deep clay loam to gravel and sand. Stellenbosch is the heart of the South African wine industry, and with terroir like this it is not hard to understand why. (NT 03/11/16)