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BESTER is a limited range of elegantly crafted Swartland wines. So, do as the Besters do - pour a glass, sit back and enjoy life's more blissful moments.

BESTER is a limited range of elegantly crafted Swartland wines developed by Zakkie Bester, a well-known wine personality who, as proud Swartlander, can trace his roots back to his ancestor Andreas Bester who settled in Malmesbury in the 1700s.

These days Zakkie and his wife Sandra live in Riebeek Kasteel, with outposts in Cape Town and Malmesbury, where their children design roads and bridges, d

ictate fashion trends and fix people's spelling mistakes respectively. The clan has also acquired two strapping sons-in-law and the first member of the next generation joined the party with great fanfare in 2015.

BESTER wines are made for uncomplicated enjoyment.

21/06/2026

Happy Father's Day to the men of BESTER Family Wines 🍷

Today, we're raising a glass to the dads who help keep this family, and this little wine label, moving forward.

To , who planted the dream and continues to share his love of wine, family, and hospitality with everyone who crosses our path.

To , navigating fatherhood from across the ocean while raising the next generation of Besters with Kent in Ireland.

To , who bravely married into this wonderfully Afrikaans family and is doing an excellent job of keeping up.

And to , whose steady presence, adventurous spirit, and unwavering support make him the kind of dad every child deserves.

Different stories. Different journeys. One thing in common: showing up for the people who matter most.

Here's to the braai masters, life coaches, designated drivers, storytellers, problem solvers, and dads who somehow always know where the missing thing is.

Happy Father's Day, gents. We think you're pretty great 🍷❤️

18/06/2026

SOUND ON, BABES 🔊🔊🔊

Email Zakkie Bester at [email protected] to get your 🍷 delivered to your door throughout SA!

15/06/2026

Meet the BESTERS! Next up, 🍷📚✍️

This is the Bester responsible for most of the words you read around here.

By day, Anna-Bet is a copywriter, author, and speaker who spends her time helping brands tell better stories. Around BESTER Family Wines, she serves as the family's unofficial storyteller, helping share the people, places, recipes, history, and occasional nonsense that make this little wine label what it is.

She's married to Jacques, a location manager and film scout who spends his days discovering beautiful corners of South Africa, and together they're raising Alexandra and Valkie in Malmesbury, just down the road from the rest of the family in Riebeek Kasteel.

When she's not writing, you'll usually find her reading, working on her next creative project, travelling somewhere interesting, or standing around a braai with a notebook nearby because inspiration has a habit of arriving at inconvenient times.

She's passionate about stories, fascinated by people, and firmly believes that some of life's best conversations happen around a table with good food and a bottle of wine.

You can follow her writing adventures at .

Keen to meet the BESTER crew in person? Come join us on the stoep for a Stoepsit Sessie...

R 150 | LIGHT SNACKS | MAX 6 GUESTS | 48H NOTICE

Email [email protected] to book

13/06/2026

Happy day, julle! 🥂

We hope you have a delightful Chenin Blanc lined up to pour today. As usual, the BESTER Family Wines crew will be drinking a toast with our BFW Chenin Blanc - chockful of upfront tropical fruit, with an abundance of lime, grapefruit and white pear on the nose.

These fruit flavours follow through on the palate, balanced by a crisp acidity and minerality to ensure a fresh, fruity style of wine with maturation potential.

Ideal to enjoy with everything from sushi and seafood platters, to chicken kebabs and braaibroodjies 🍣🍤🍱🍗🥪

Email at [email protected] to get yours delivered to your door throughout SA!

11/06/2026

BESTER Family Wines loves a bit of insightful science 🍷🔬👩‍🔬

If you dig a good podcast, we can highly recommend Ologies by Alie Ward. Her recent episode on (also spelled ) is an absolute banger!

To chill or not to chill? That is the question. Alie ropes in author, winemaker, sommelier, and Enology expert, André Hueston Mack to explain:

🍷 Old World vs. New World wines
🍷 Corks vs. caps
🍷 Red, rosé, orange, and white wines
🍷 Stemware
🍷 Judging a wine by its label

AND MUCH MORE. It’s a goodie! Find it on the website (link below) or wherever you listen to your podcasts.

www.alieward.com/ologies/enologymethodology

29/05/2026

There’s always something happening out here in the Swartland 🚴🍷🔥

The BESTER Family Wines team keeps its collective ear to the ground to bring you the latest on what’s worth doing in the valley, because great weekends are about more than just good wine… although that definitely helps.

Next up? Swartland Stofpad.

Three days of gravel roads, big climbs, dusty legs, cold beers, braai fires, and proper West Coast-style gees as cyclists take on the Swartland in true Dirty South fashion.

📅 June 5 – June 7
📍 Riebeek Valley
🏁 Hosted by Dirty South Events

If you’re heading through for the weekend, make a proper valley stop of it and join us for a BESTER Family Wines Stoepsit Sessie while you’re here.

R 150 | LIGHT SNACKS | MAX 6 GUESTS | 48H NOTICE
Email [email protected] to book

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26/05/2026

Some of you are about one mildly inconvenient email away from needing this post 🍷

Zoom in carefully… and maybe stock up on BESTER Family Red while you’re at it.

24/05/2026

Hoor die stories uit die perd se bek 🍷👋

Join a Stoep Sessie at BESTER Family Wines!

Pull up a chair on the BESTER family stoep and enjoy a private tasting with winemaker Zakkie Bester himself. Discover the stories behind each wine, in the space where it was dreamt up, and share in the spirit of dolce far niente, mos.

R 150 | LIGHT SNACKS | MAX 6 GUESTS | 48H NOTICE

20/05/2026

This winter we’re fully committing to Italian Nonna Maxxing 🍷🤌

Soup that’s been simmer for hours. Enough bread to concern your doctor. Thick jerseys. Loud kitchens. Olive oil on absolutely everything. Telling people to “eat, eat!” every seven minutes.

And, naturally, a bottle of BESTER Family Red ready to be poured.

Honestly, the Italians know what’s up.

Less rushing, more simmering. Less scrolling, more sitting around the table while someone’s aunt argues about garlic quantities. This is winter done properly.

Email at [email protected] to get your 🍷 delivered to your door throughout SA!

19/05/2026

If these fluffy ladies could talk, they would tell you... 🐔🐔🐔

BESTER Family Wines Chenin Blanc is packed with upfront tropical fruit, the bouquet charms with an abundance of lime, grapefruit and white pear. These fruit flavours follow through on the palate, which shows a very crisp acidity, a striking minerality, as well as captivating mild umami notes as a result of partial amphora maturation.

Served well-chilled (8 to 10°C).

Order some today! Email at [email protected] to get your 🍷 delivered to your door throughout SA.

Address

14 Sarel Cilliers Street
Riebeek-Kasteel
7307

Telephone

+27828055586

Website

https://www.besterwines.com/

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