OUR STORY of Wine, Weather & People
Weather Report came to be in July of 2018. Toward the end of a chapter chasing vintages across the equator, picking grapes, making wine, and getting hopelessly lost in conversation with bona fide wine folk - mostly in broken Spanglish - came the calling of home.
These we special times. They inspire our work which combines a passion for history, farming and flavour, science and art. It provokes the inquisitive mind, and whets the appetite. Although it is the Cape and its uncensored expression of the elements that transcend winemaking to something more visceral. South Africa’s delicious geography and equally endowed social culture is impossibly diverse. The challenges are unique and more often than not, rather extreme. As for the people that live in it, even more so. At the end of a day when the wind let’s up and the sun sinks below the horizon we have learnt, by bare necessity, that gambling on the mood of tomorrow morning’s sky is treacherous.
Be it leisure, business or innocent curiosity, wine has slowly created an aesthetic tapestry for everyone. My uncle and namesake, Christopher Keet, let me in on this interesting subject as a youngster. His legacy from Cordoba on the Helderberg, where he produced iconic vintages of the cabernet franc led Crescendo, set him in a distinguished league. The Keet First Verse is firmly set as one of South Africa’s finest clarets.
People are the fuel for our days, no matter the weather. There are many in this story, some of whom will be introduced as we explore the vineyards that ground Weather Report.