A Special Producer Visit: Ginny Povall of Botanica Wines

We’re delighted to welcome Ginny Povall, founder and winemaker of Botanica Wines, for a special in-gallery producer visit and pop-up wine tasting.

Join us ahead of Happy Hour for a relaxed and engaging tasting experience—an opportunity to meet Ginny in person and explore a thoughtful selection of wines that beautifully express both place and philosophy. We’ll be pouring from three of Botanica’s distinctive ranges: Flower Girl, Big Flower, and Arboretum.

The vibrant Flower Girl wines are a celebration of creativity and experimentation—crafted with organically grown grapes and a light-touch approach that embraces minimal intervention and maximum expression. These are wines that feel fresh, energetic, and joyfully unconstrained.

The vibrant Flower Girl wines are a celebration of creativity and experimentation—crafted with organically grown grapes and a light-touch approach that embraces minimal intervention and maximum expression. These are wines that feel fresh, energetic, and joyfully unconstrained.

The Big Flower range offers a deeper look into Botanica’s estate vineyards, with wines rooted in the unique terroir of Protea Heights Farm. The floral labels pay homage to the farm’s history as South Africa’s first commercial flower farm, while the wines themselves reflect both elegance and structure.

At the pinnacle is Arboretum, Botanica’s flagship Bordeaux-style blend. Sourced from the finest barrels of each vintage, it is a wine of depth and balance—named in honor of the remarkable collection of trees that surround the estate.

All of these wines are grown and produced on Protea Heights, an organically farmed estate in Devon Valley, Stellenbosch. The vineyards, planted between 2009 and 2010 on cooler, south-facing slopes, benefit from ocean breezes off False Bay and a remarkable diversity of ancient soils—from decomposed granite to sandstone and shale-derived compositions. Since 2014, the estate has embraced organic and regenerative farming practices, including no-till agriculture, fostering biodiversity, improving soil health, and contributing to a more resilient ecosystem.

The result is a collection of wines that are not only expressive and beautifully crafted, but also deeply connected to the land from which they come.

We hope you’ll join us for this special opportunity to sip, learn, and connect—both with the wines and with the inspiring woman behind them.