In 2014, Kobus Basson, owner of Kleine Zalze, had announced that he had appointed Alastair Rimmer as the cellar master. Our resident wine expert Carrie Adams chats to Rimmer, an internationally acclaimed cellar master. Raised in Benoni and now a world class wine maker, Rimmer shares his story. – Jarryd Neves
Alastair Rimmer on how he got into winemaking:
I was planning to study horticulture and looking at going to Pietermaritzburg. I grew up in an English speaking family, picked up a bit of Afrikaans at school, but nothing that would allow me to study in Afrikaans. By chance, I was in Stellenbosch. My parents bought a property in the Cape and I was bored and went and had a look at the campus of Stellenbosch University.