“We handcraft innovative wines that express their full sense of origin”.
Nativo wines have garnered immense popularity since their first bottling in 2004. The story starts in 2000 when Billy and Penny Hughes bought a 57ha wheat farm outside Malmesbury overlooking the Kasteelberg mountains, where the landscape reminded Billy of his home country, Argentina.

They planted 27ha under vine and besides growing grapes for his own wines he sells the excess to an eager group of respected wine makers. One of the positive results of their organic farming practice is that the berry develops strong healthy wild yeasts, which means that they don’t have to use commercial yeasts to induce fermentation.

Billy who regards himself as a ‘wine designer’ rather than a wine maker states, “This is integral to the development of flavours and other characteristics that give a wine its site-specific signature”. This harmonious blend of Viognier and Chenin Blanc offers subtle spicy aromatic aromas with complex, yet silky flavours of peaches and cream, finishing dry and minerally.