Welcome to the Ex Animo Wine Co Podcast: a series of interviews and discussions with winemakers and great minds from the world of wine.
In this episode, David Clarke chats with Winemag.co.za Editor and Wine Reviewer, Christian Eedes. This is the 4th annual Wine SONA (State of the Nation) discussion.
In it, David poses questions to Christian about the state of SA wine in 2025, such as:
- How do we get more South Africans to drink wine?
- Why vineyards are decreasing
- Foreign wines: why are they not necessarily better than South African wine?
*A video version of this interview is available on YouTube*
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Welcome to the Ex Animo Wine Co Podcast: a series of interviews and discussions with winemakers and great minds from the world of wine.
In this episode, David Clarke chats with Winemag.co.za Editor and Wine Reviewer, Christian Eedes. This is the 4th annual Wine SONA (State of the Nation) discussion.
In it, David poses questions to Christian about the state of SA wine in 2025, such as:
- How do we get more South Africans to drink wine?
- Why vineyards are decreasing
- Foreign wines: why are they not necessarily better than South African wine?
*A video version of this interview is available on YouTube*
Today on the podcast we have Duncan Savage – owner and winemaker of Savage Wines. He made his name through the first decade or so of the 2000s as the winemaker of Cape Point Vineyards.
Duncan’s production facility (originally set up by Tim Martin) is in the industrial Cape Town suburb of Salt River – I interviewed him there, in the now vacant warehouse above his winery. Note: there is an echo and some street noise, but not too much.
Duncan is one of the “good guys” of the industry, very jovial and easy going. I don’t think there are many people with anything negative to say about him, other than his wines sell out too quickly.
As you will hear, Duncan has been making wines almost 20 years, and has built one of the stronger brands of the South African “new wave” – I wanted to talk to Duncan about this journey and about his new 2019 wines about to be released.
It is a long one, as Duncan is a great story-teller and has some very well thought out insights into wine making, marketing and life in general.
Strap yourselves in, I give you Duncan Savage…
Ex Animo Wine Co.
Welcome to the Ex Animo Wine Co Podcast: a series of interviews and discussions with winemakers and great minds from the world of wine.
In this episode, David Clarke chats with Winemag.co.za Editor and Wine Reviewer, Christian Eedes. This is the 4th annual Wine SONA (State of the Nation) discussion.
In it, David poses questions to Christian about the state of SA wine in 2025, such as:
- How do we get more South Africans to drink wine?
- Why vineyards are decreasing
- Foreign wines: why are they not necessarily better than South African wine?
*A video version of this interview is available on YouTube*