Bruce Jack Moveable Feast 2018

The Drift Estate in rural Overberg is the base for Bruce Jack Wines; a winemaker-driven family business. After completing a Political Science and English degree at the University of Cape Town, and then a Masters of Literature at St Andrews University in Scotland, Bruce studied winemaking at Roseworthy in Australia – the first South African to do this —before working vintages here, there and everywhere. Eventually he came back to South Africa ready to do his own thing. His vineyard partner is a company called uniWines Vineyards, based in the Bredekloof Valley. They are able to craft wines of complexity, character, balance, and intrigue, through careful blending of small parcels of excellence from high-altitude, dry-grown, cool climate vineyards.

As a young, idealistic winemaker Bruce dreamt of making one red wine from his own estate. His vision was to blend this wine mainly from two varieties that he loves – Shiraz and Malbec. He would compliment this blend with small amounts of idiosyncratic varieties with very distinctive individual characters like Touriga Nacional, Barbera and Tannat. These would be added in the same way one adds a pinch or herbs or a sprinkle of salt and pepper to a dish. And so that’s exactly what he planted on their family estate.