Marc Kent’s Boekenhoutskloof has a concealed cellar with a collection of 94 oak foudres
Marc Kent was never quite the enfant terrible of the modern Cape wine industry, though to judge from the more-than-audible note of envy that creeps into the conversation of colleagues and competitors, his successes have provoked discomfort as well as admiration. That he is an outsider is probably also a contributing factor, as is his sometimes direct way with words.
Unlike most of his contemporaries who also began with nothing, it has been a long time since Kent was an employee: he started out at Boekenhoutskloof as an untried and untested winemaker but he swiftly parlayed his winemaking successes into an equity deal. Now less than three decades later he owns a meaningful chunk of every one of the enterprises that his drive, skill and creativity have put onto the map...
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