Author Archives: John

2020 Grapes to Wine

What can we say about 2020? If you'd asked us a few weeks ago I'm sure our answer would have been very different to what it is today. With the ...

Noble Vice 2019

Noble Vice and the Cape Town Marathon hit the Mother City on the same Sunday and the streets were buzzing with a great vibe! We showed our Rocking Horse Cape ...

2019 Vineyards & Harvest

We always say that harvest time feels like a bit of blur but 2019 felt like a raging whirlwind - so much so we didn't manage to take a tonne ...

2018 Harvest Good Times

It's hard to believe that the 2018 wines are already tucked up in barrel as we enjoy the first rains of the Cape autumn. I think there have been a ...

2016 Vintage Release

Thorne and Daughters and Hogan Wines shared a joint trade release at the fantastic La Tête restaurant yesterday in Cape Town city centre. It's always a super chance to get ...

A few 2017 snapshots

So 2016 flew by in a blur and we didn't take the time to document all the activity and mayhem. 2017's harvest seems to have sped by even faster but ...

Releasing the 2015s

On Monday 13 June we hosted a small get-together at Neil Grant's Burrata restaurant at the Old Biscuit Mill in Cape Town to mark the release of our 2015 vintage ...

Cape Wine 2015

We have just finished a mad week in Cape Town at Cape Wine 2015 where the SA wine industry gets together every 3 years to showcase our wines and welcome visitors from ...

Harvest 2015 in photos

The 2015 harvest has been bruising in that it has been incredibly early and incredibly compressed. Given that it is such an unbelievably high quality harvest, the biggest challenge has ...

Good vibrations

As our first year unfolded we have been touched by the warm reception that people have given the wines, and at the immensely positive feedback that we have had from the ...

Young Guns 4

We were very lucky to be invited to take part in Wine Cellar's annual 'Young Guns' tasting which showcases emerging winemaking talent. There's a great energy in the South African ...

The Wine Cellar

One of the great pleasures of making wine is getting to meet all of the interesting characters who work in the wine industry. This shoot is part of a series ...