Nitida Wine Estate

First we found a piece of beautiful soil (just “to live on”), we also happened to really fancy drinking good wine. Maybe it helped to be inadvertently perfectly trained for the job of crafting a wine brand (Bernhard is a chemical engineer and Peta was in advertising). Finally we just had to add some magic ingredients: Peta’s mother (known as Granny Dracs) helped us finance the farm; we found a 3-cylinder, 30 kilowatt, semi-derelict 1971 Ford tractor in the shed which we promptly named Pufford and learnt to drive.

Klaas, who had worked on the farm for years, taught us to milk a cow and chase down sheep and the final essentials were tonnes of energy and wonderful people.