Bruce Jack

Bruce grew up in Cape Town and went to UCT, St Andrews University, Scotland in the 1980s and eventually to Adelaide University, Australia, where he studied Oenology and Viticulture.

Bruce worked in wine retail during his university years and then wine marketing, sales and distribution in the UK for two years, before completing his winemaking course.

He made wine in South Australia (Barossa Valley, McLaren Vale), Bordeaux and California (Sonoma) and then returned home in 1998 to start Flagstone Winery. His winery is based in an historic dynamite factory, once owned by Cecil Rhodes, in The Srand, Somerset West near Cape Town.

Flagstone is the closest winery to the sea in South Africa. Bruce rents vineyard land all over the Western Cape and has a small vineyard development of his own in the spectacular Overberg Valley on the slopes of the Akkadisberg Mountain. He also shares Ed’s love of Spanish culture and advises he is busy learning the language, or at least enough to order a rabbit and snail paella cooked over seasoned, old vine cuttings … (see gallery).