Erika Obermeyer grew up on her family’s sheep farm near Sutherland in the arid Karoo. The instilled a passion of the outdoors and nature and this combined with her affinity for maths and science initially pointed her into the direction of studying medicine.  She studied a Bachelor of Science degree at Stellenbosch University, and this is where her wine quest began.

After graduating from Stellenbosch University with a BSc and BSc Honours in Wine Biotechnology in 1998, she was appointed as Assistant Winemaker at Kleine Zalze in Stellenbosch in 1999. Completing harvest tenures in Sancerre, St Emilion and Beziers, France, she gained an appreciation for the balance and elegance of the wines of these regions.

Following her time at Kleine Zalze, she accepted a winemaker position at Graham Beck Wines in 2005. After a brief stint under the mentorship of Charles Hopkins, then-Cellar Master at Franschhoek, she found myself the sole winemaker in a world class cellar and living my dream.

Drawing on her extensive training and rewarding career as a winemaker and marketer with invaluable experience locally and abroad, she took a leap of faith and started my own label in 2016.