The Single Vine | BLANKbottle

Описание: For a man who picked 165 tons in the 2021 harvest from around 76 vineyards and 30 different varieties, it’s funny to think that he only owns ONE non-bearing vine in the Strand.

Pieter Walser is a surfer, kaalvoet {shoeless} when I arrive early at their house in the Strand on the last Friday of October 2021. Set on a quiet street a few hundred meters from False Bay, the house emanates ENERGY. A family home, built by Pieter’s father and systematically upgraded to now house his wife and three children; Blikkies (the metal surf shack at the bottom of their garden); his label studio, and the intriguing paraphernalia of a life in wine (think a line-up of fallen soldiers, and the original art of some of his favourite labels adorning the walls, some even spray-painted on). He laughingly admits: “This is as close as you’ll get to the spiritual home of BLANKbottle.” I meet his wife Aneen and their three children before they set off for school. The children hoflik {courteous}, and confidently coming in to shake my hand - “Goeie môre Tannie, I am…” (Ai, how that still stings, and yet such a TRADEMARK of Afrikaans culture - respect your elders).

DOP: Michael Ellis Edited by: Kleinjan Groenewald

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