Madeleine and I first met Frans Malan and his kind, gentle wife Liza when she started working for them in their tasting room on Simonsig Estate in 1977.  This was the year that they would walk away with a variety of medals from the Stellenbosch Young Wine Show and introduce South Africa to its first home grown Gewurztraminer.  To call Frans a pioneer does him no service; he was just so much more.  A character of the winelands and firm in his beliefs and belief in himself.  Having traveled in France he, with Spatz Sperling from Delheim and