INTELLEGO WINES

According to Jurgen Gouws from Intellego Wines, natural winemaking all starts with the soil. “Everything grows in soil, it’s the medium in which you create the raw materials of your wine. When you use chemicals in the soil, it will become compacted and there will be no life in it. This also tires the soil – if you keep farming like that the next generation will be farming a cricket pitch in 50 years’ time. When you follow organic and/or biodynamic practices, however, you do what you can to get life into your soil. Go to one of these vineyards, dig in the ground and you are likely to end up with a handful of earthworms because they stimulate microbial activity in the soil.”