The Pinoneers

The Newton Johnsons have been farming the Upper Hemel-en-Aarde Valley for 25 years.

A family affair, brothers Bevan and Gordon joined their parents to start producing wines from this little slice of heaven on earth in 1997, the very name quite progressive at the time, in honour of their mother’s maiden name and their own. A homage to the influence of both parents, equally. The Newtons, on their mother’s side, from a cattle and maize farm in Natal, and the Johnsons, their father, a fitter and turner at the Cape Town docks, who lived in Seapoint, back when it was still poor man’s land. {I was not aware that it was EVER poor man’s land.} Their father, Dave, was a surfer when there were only about 100 surfers IN the Cape, and the reason this family has such an affinity with the sea. “Stories of him driving down the Garden Route where there were no surfers and surfing certain places for the first time.”

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DOP: Michael Ellis Edited by: Kleinjan Groenewald

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