Wolf & Woman Wines

Wolf & Woman is an exciting project created in 2019 by Swartland native, Jolandie Fouché. Her goal with Wolf & Woman is to produce wines that focus on the magic of the old vines in the Swartland (and certain beautiful pockets of the Voor-Paardeberg and Piekenierskloof) that provide an exceptional expression of the schist, granite, and iron soils in which they grow. The name, Wolf & Woman, was inspired by a quote from Nikita Gill that Jolandie’s husband sent her many years ago: “Some days I am more wolf than woman and I am still learning to stop apologizing for my wild.” Jolandie believes that the ‘wild woman’ is naturally creative, passionate and instinctive – all requisite characteristics for a winemaker. She only works with select, dry-farmed vineyards that are hand-harvested. The whites are made with a large amount of lees contact while the reds see bits and pieces of whole-clusters. All fermentations are carried out without any additions except a touch of sulfur. In Jolandie’s words, she merely steps in as an “interpreter of the wine’s natural song.”