About the wine

The celebrated winemaker Markus Schneider has made his wine a brand and thus wrote one of the most astonishing success stories in German viticulture. His rapid rise left him with no time to get to know the wine world outside his native Germany. He made up for this with the ROOI OLIFANT. This Wine & Friend joint venture was created together with the well-known South African winemaker Danie Steytler. Not far from Stellenbosch in the Bottelary Hills, they work on Kaapzicht Estate, opposite the native vegetation phase in Germany. With views of Lion's Head and Table Mountain, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Shiraz and Pinotage grow there. It is named after the huge granite rocks that have been present in the growing region for centuries and look like fat red elephants in the evening sun.