Journal

A quick harvest report for 2023

If you have ever travelled to Oman, you will likely have travelled via the city of Muscat, the country’s capital. Outside of the Arabian...

Harvest 2022 was loaded with ups and downs. Many of them. But in pausing to reflect on that notion, I feel like that tends to be a theme...

Introducing: Wasted Wine Club

When it comes to natural wine, there is a lot of debate as to where one draws the line on what is technically a natural wine versus one...

The world is slowly returning to some semblance of life as we once knew it. Here in the U.K., Spring has sprung, the days are getting...

The first addition to the Yo El Rey range since the launch of the 2018 red cuvee is now available in both South Africa and the United...

If you've never heard of Sophiatown, it's worth looking up. It was a suburb of Johannesburg that for many years during the Apartheid...

As many of you know, the name Yo El Rey was inspired by Pablo Picasso. Beyond his immense influence and legacy he left on the world of...

Yo El Rey will donate £1 of every wine sold direct to the consumer to Pebbles Project, a charity based in South Africa.

There’s something about removing wine from the pomp and flash of bars and restaurants and just drinking it out in nature, in the wild,...

Black Cellar Club (BLACC) was established in 2016 in South Africa as an organisation committed to assisting black sommeliers further...

Onward, and the brand philosophy.

Wine brands: Bosman Adama - @bosmanadama Tebogo Ditsebe - Botebo Wines - @botebowines Lindile Ndzaba - Khayelitsha Fine Wines -...

Change and integration in the South African wine trade has been slow, but there are a number of BIPOC personalities needing our support.

A short report on harvest 2020, and looking towards a post Covid-19 brand.

What better way to charge head on into 2020 with not one, but TWO, small fiestas, celebrating Yo El Rey landing in the United Kingdom.

Harvest 2019 was a weird one. It seems a strange sentence to profess, because admittedly I can’t even tell you why it was “weird”.

Ezekiel is Zimbabwean. He catches a dodgy, dinged out train into Stellenbosch every morning, wearing oversized gumboots and blue overalls.

A long journey into wine took an exciting turn when I decided to jump into making some of my own.