The Tenor | Bouchard Finlayson | Rooted

“I love Paris in the springtime. I love Paris in the fall…” - Peter Finlayson singing.
Peter Finlayson sings. He sings in the Overberg Music Group, with a specific passion for show tunes, think Les Mis, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dream Coat, and Fiddler on the Roof. Soulful. He says he used to sing, but his brothers always told him to shut up until he took up singing lessons. The musical thread seems to run true in the Finlayson clan, with his brother Walter’s children and grandchildren having demonstrated THEIR own musicality in a variety of ways. The Finlaysons have a long history in winemaking. Peter describes his mother as a peasant farmer, though I wonder whether the word ‘peasant’ might be slightly misplaced, given that she was farming in CONSTANTIA (at the time) with a doctor husband. Eleanor later became the lady of Hartenberg when her husband purchased it in 1948. His father, Dr. Maurice Finlayson, was a pathologist who arrived in South Africa by invitation of the government in the 1930s to assist with the typhoid outbreaks in the Karoo. The farm Hartenberg was their family farm. His brother Walter eventually developed Blaauwklippen and Glen Carlou; While Peter became the pioneer/ first winemaker in the Hemel-en-Aarde for Tim Hamilton Russell and later co-owner of Bouchard Finlayson. THEIR sons, David (Walter’s son) and Peter-Allan and Andrew (Peter’s sons), are part of South Africa’s new generation of winemakers. David owns and runs Edgebaston, now named David Finlayson. Peter-Allan co-owns Crystallum with brother Andrew and makes wine at Gabriëlskloof, having married into the family. {Andrew being more of an architect by day.} Thus, when I say, WINE FAMILY…I mean THE wine family {or one of them. I haven’t told you about the De Wets yet.}
DOP: Michael Ellis Edited by: Kleinjan Groenewald
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