Wilderer
Even though Wilderer Gin is produced in South Africa, it has German roots. The restaurateur Helmut Wilderer, who came from Karlsruhe, fell in love with the country of South Africa during a holiday trip in February 1994 and decided to emigrate the same year to set up a fine spirits production facility there. The beginning was not easy, because the production of these spirits was still forbidden from the times of apartheid. For decades, the distilling of grappa or eau de vie was regulated by the South African winegrowers' cooperative »Kooperatieve Wijnbouwers Vereniging van Zuid-Afrika«. When the monopoly fell in 1994, Wilderer seized the opportunity to get the first licence in the country to produce grappa and spirits. After his death in December 2016, Christian Wilderer took over his father's business and continues to run it with the same passion today.
