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The Ahrens Family

Western Cape | South Africa
34°S, 19°E
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The story.


​Albert Ahrens, a dab hand at the pizza oven and like many of the Cape's new generation an engaging raconteur, was the winemaker at Lammershoek at the birth of the Swartland Revolution, before dipping into a number of joint and solo projects including working with Pieter Walser on BLANKbottle, culminating in the Ahrens Family Wines. He's driving as much as 45,000km per year between vineyards, tenaciously accessing some of the finest fruit in the Cape, then making the wines his small cellar at Wildepaardejacht south of Paarl, a serene spot beneath the Du Toitskloof mountains. Then there’s his MCC, under the separate House of GM & Ahrens label and cellared in Franschhoek, further adding to the odometer. His are what Albert describes as "address specific wines", where the unique characteristics of where the grapes are grown matters more than the identity of the grapes themselves. Production volumes are tiny, maybe one to three thousand bottles of each wine, sometimes just a few hundred.

The wines.


The White Black | Voor-Paardeberg | 2017 | 2018 | 2019
Stellenbosch OVC | Bottelary | 2018 | 2019
Seventy | Bottelary | 2018 | 2019
​Black | Swartland | 2017 | 2018 | 2019

Where in the world?

Gallery.

Who are we?

In the summer of 2019, two small 7-year-old wine importers, Red Squirrel and The Knotted Vine, came together to become the Graft Wine Company.

​Our dynamic and experienced team is based across the UK and works with an intrepid, exciting collection of restaurants, bars, pubs, hotels, independent wine merchants.

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  • Home
  • Who We Are
  • Winemakers
    • Argentina >
      • MAAL
      • Rocamadre
    • Australia >
      • Aphelion
      • Bellwether
      • Dal Zotto
      • David Franz
      • Koerner
      • La Violetta
      • Lowboi
      • Ministry of Clouds
      • Murdoch Hill
      • Place of Changing Winds
      • Polperro & Even Keel
      • Sigurd Wines
      • Vinteloper
      • Wilimee
    • Austria >
      • Andreas Gsellmann
      • Eschenhof Holzer
    • Canada >
      • Okanagan Crush PAd
    • Chile >
      • Itata Paraíso
    • England >
      • Black Chalk
    • France >
      • 1006 Vins de Loire
      • Château Haut-Bergeron
      • Domaine Bott
      • Clos Cibonne
      • Château Combel-la-Serre
      • Château Laballe
      • Frédéric Guilbaud Muscadet
      • Domaine Mathias
      • Kewin Descombes
      • Champagne Levasseur
      • Mary Taylor
      • Damien Pinon
      • Maison Ventenac
      • Domaine du Vieux Pressoir
      • Xavier Vignon
    • Germany >
      • Weingut Dr. Corvers-Kauter
      • Emil Bauer & Söhne
      • Weingut Frey
    • Italy >
      • 47 AD
      • Ayunta
      • Bruna
      • Ca' di Rajo
      • Cà ed Balos
      • Sobrero
      • Cossetti
      • Fornaro
      • Leonardo Bussoletti
      • Noelia Ricci
      • Tempo al Vino
      • Tocco
      • Vigneti Cenci
    • New Zealand >
      • Loveblock
    • Portugal >
      • A&D Wines
      • Adega de Borba
      • Caminhos Cruzados
      • Mira do Ó
      • Morgado do Quintão
    • Slovenia >
      • Matic
    • South Africa >
      • The Ahrens Family
      • Beeslaar
      • Cape Point Vineyards
      • Cape Town Wine Company
      • De Kleine Wijn Koop
      • Dorper
      • Lowerland
      • Matthew Van Heerden
      • Wightman & Sons
    • Spain >
      • Armas de Guerra
      • Bocchoris Cava
      • MacRobert & Canals
      • Mar 7
      • Marsilea
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      • Nestares Eguizábal
    • Turkey >
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