Swartland: The Old-Vine Rebellion

In the early 2000s, a small group of young South African winemakers began moving into Swartland, a hot, dusty, unfashionable wheat and grain farming region nobody associated with fine wine, to work with ancient, neglected bush vines that everyone else had written off. Today's episode tells the story of the Swartland revolution, the minimal-intervention winemaking philosophy that defines the region, and the producers, led by Mullineux Family Wines, who turned a forgotten farming district into one of the most talked-about wine regions in the world.