Some places make wine. Warwick makes a case for a particular piece of ground.
This land has been farmed since 1771, when a plot outside Stellenbosch was granted to its first owner under the name De Goede Sukses. Long before a single bottle carried the Warwick name.
The farm changed hands over the centuries, but the name it carries today came in 1912, when Colonel William Alexander Gordon acquired the property and renamed it in tribute to his Warwickshire regiment. A soldier's gesture that stuck.
The Ratcliffe family arrived in 1964, and spent twenty years learning what the land could do before releasing their first wine. What followed was a run of firsts which shaped South African wine history - the country's first bottled Cape Blend, a Trilogy that has been produced without missing a single vintage since 1986, and a Cabernet Franc programme that first established the varietal’s credentials in the Cape.
