Winemaker Dustin Osborne

Aaldering Vineyards & Wines warmly welcomes Dustin Osborne as its new Winemaker and General Manager. Dustin represents the new generation of highly skilled young professional winemakers from South Africa.

The enthusiastic 29-year old devoted his life to wine as of age 16. He developed his untamable work ethic growing up on a farm in Brandfort, near Bloemfontein, South Africa. Born from a South African mother and a New Zealand father he captured the best of both worlds by crossing the Indian Ocean to study Viticulture and Oenology at the renowned Lincoln University in Christchurch.

To become the versatile winemaker that Dustin is, he travelled around the world to volunteer and work at well-known and intriguing wineries like Villa Maria Estate (Marlborough, New Zealand), Jordan Vineyards & Wines (California, USA), Burrowing Owl Vineyards (British Columbia, Canada), and Peregrine Wines (Central Otego, New Zealand). Within South Africa he gained experience at renowned wineries like Villiera, Joostenberg Wines, Delheim Wines, and for the last respectable 4 years Dustin was the head winemaker for Mont Rochelle Mountain Vineyards in Franschhoek.

Triggered by the opportunity of working for a top-terroir winery such as Aaldering Vineyards & Wines in Devon Valley, Stellenbosch, Dustin took on the challenge of becoming the winerys new Winemaker and General Manager per July 1st 2011.

Osbornes signature will already be on the second Aaldering vintage which will be blended this month (August 2011). For Dustin the passion of winemaking is in tasting and blending the wine to an elegant piece of art, portraying a sense of place, and which evolves delicately as the wine ages.

Dustin is the heart and soul of the Aaldering Vineyards & Wines winemaking philosophy and his signature will be tasted in every bottle of Aaldering.

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