Danie Truter has been making wine for over 30 years, I certainly knew him in 1977 when he washed out his first tanks just after completing his Cellar Technology studies at Stellenbosch University’s Elsenburg Agricultural College, stamping ground of many a well known South African winemaker.  At the time he was working at Simonsig Wine Estate and had the most beautiful and aristocratic Borzoi that could pick up the winemakers miniature dog in her mouth, her party trick in the tasting room, which at the time was run by Madeleine. Danie moved on to bigger and better things at Gilbey’s, whose