Greek for “a serene state of mind, free from worry and preoccupation”, Ataraxia lives up to the hype. Aptly called The Skyfields, Ataraxia Wines is perfectly positioned on a commanding rise in the beautiful Hemel-en-Aarde wine-growing area.
At the outset of a pre-release tasting of his 2025 wines, Duncan Savage observes, “The market’s tight. I’m so happy I didn’t follow the trend to go aspirational R1,000 a bottle.” He goes on to describe 2025 as “a vintage where the stars aligned”, and the wines bear this out: Savage’s range has always been strong, but the 2025s deliver…
We continue to operate from our city home in Salt River developing and farming parcels of vines in various locations around the Western Cape. Fortunately for us, all the hard work in the vineyards, especially mulching, paid off and we saw the rest of the season yielding some incredible fruit. It was definitely a winemaker's vintage, fruit needed to be…
