The unique location of Durbanville Hills’ cellar a mere 20 minutes from Cape Town’s city centre, offers not only a spectacular view of Table Mountain and Table Bay, but also an extraordinary terroir that stabilises temperatures and eliminates extremes of heat and cold. Although the Durbanville area is renowned for its Sauvignon Blanc that excels under the cool conditions where it is grown mostly on the cool south facing slopes, the range of red wines also benefit from the warmer valley outskirts and opposing northern slopes.

The Durbanville Hills winery was designed and built with only one objective in mind: to make top-quality wine from top-quality grapes. White varietals are cooled quickly to release only the beneficial aromas from the skins into the juice, producing wines with consistent, as well as longer, flavour retention.

The cellar is an ultramodern facility that can compare with the world’s best. The fermentation cellar, housing 247 stainless steel tanks of varying capacity and the spacious maturation cellar is cut into the hillside to soften the visual effect of the winery on the landscape. The smaller fermentation tanks allow batches from the different vineyards to be vinified separately.