These days there is no shortage of people that get labeled ‘best young winemaker’ or ‘one to watch’. Testalonga’s Craig Hawkins is constantly described as such in the wine press, but it is beyond doubt that he is now very much established as one of South Africa’s finest vignerons.
Great South African wine is quite a recent phenomenon. During the apartheid, the wine industry was completely dominated by one organization, which controlled everything from production to price, so it is only since the early 1990s that independent wine producers have emerged.
Craig Hawkins is one of the most influential and certainly the most exciting winemakers of, not only South Africa, but the the New World. Producing wine in the Swartland in South Africa, he has helped to change the image of South African wine. – Suppliers notes
