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Quando
Quoin Rock
Region: Stellenbosch
Owner: Seymour & Sophia Pritchard
Wine Maker: Isak ‘Ippie’ Smit (Nov 1997)
Seymour Pritchard bought the 10-hectare farm Malvern Heights in 1969 from Colonel JW Billingham, who had named the farm after the rolling hills around Malvern in his native England. When winemaking came into Seymour’s sights in the mid-1980’s France was still at the centre of the wine universe so he “Frenchised” the name to Clos Malverne.
’We had a hell of a time developing this winery. We funded everything through sales of wine’, says Seymour Pritchard, who remembers having so little infrastructure that they moistened hessian ‘socks’ to cool the tanks. How times have changed. They’re well established now, well reputed, and looking to fine-tune their performance.