Reyneke

South Africa

Reyneke is the name to know when it comes to South African biodynamics. Johan Reyneke founded the estate in the Polkadraai Hills west of Stellenbosch and set about doing things the harder way, organic certification came first, then full biodynamic status, making Reyneke the first fully biodynamic-certified wine estate in the country. Cattle and sheep graze between the rows, cover crops feed the soils, and the famous biodynamic preparations, horn manure, horn silica, go out on schedule. Cellarmaster Rudiger Gretschel has been alongside Johan for two decades, translating that vineyard philosophy into the glass. The whole approach can be summed up in three words they actually live by: less is more.