The wines of Nuiba Wines

Nuiba Wines is the project of talented young 'garagiste' Suzanne Coetzee. After years of apprenticeship at the prestigious Clos Malverne Wine Estate in Stellenbosch, Suzanne started making her own wines in 2016. She scours the surrounding vineyards for the best grapes, buys them, and presses her own wines, all aged in used oak barrels.

Suzanne Coetzee is a farmer's daughter from Namibia. She named her wines 'Nuiba', which means 'love' in the local Namibian dialect. Her aim is to let the fruit of the grapes come through in the wines as unadorned as possible, which is why she intervenes as little as possible during winemaking. She ferments the grapes in open vats on wild yeasts and ages her wines in used oak barrels (which have less influence on the flavor of the wine than new barrels).

She mainly uses grapes from the Piekenierskloof in the Olifants River: Pinotage, Cabernet Sauvignon, Shiraz, Grenache and Sémillon. Her wines (First, Second, Third and Fourth Post) are named after cattle watering points in Namibia, as she was used to on her farm.

If you want to know more about this winery, here you will find the link to the website of Nuiba Wines.