Fine South African wine, represented and brought to the trade.
LAB Wine & Spirits distributes a curated portfolio of estates — and does more than move bottles. We build wine lists, host tastings and winemaker dinners, run corporate events and a wine club, and represent the farms and makers behind every label.
We represent estates we believe in, and we sell them properly.
LAB Wine & Spirits is a South African distributor of fine wine. Rather than carry everything, we hold a deliberately tight portfolio — estates with a clear point of view, a story worth telling, and wine that earns its place on a list.
But distribution is only half of it. We build wine lists for restaurants, lead tastings, host winemaker dinners, run corporate events and a wine club — the work that turns a bottle on a shelf into a wine someone chooses, pours and remembers.
For the farms and makers we represent, that means more than shelf space. It means a partner who understands the wine and puts it in front of the right buyers, with the relationships to make it sell.
Distribution, and everything around the bottle.
Six services that move wine and build the occasions wine belongs to — for the trade we supply and the producers we represent.
Wine distribution
We supply restaurants, hotels, retailers and specialist stores across South Africa, holding stock of a focused portfolio and getting it to the trade reliably. A current trade pricelist is available on request.
Wine list creation
We build and refine wine lists for restaurants and venues — matched to the kitchen, the room and the margin. From a tight by-the-glass selection to a full cellar list, the right wines in the right order.
Wine tastings
Guided tastings for trade buyers, private groups and corporate guests — led with knowledge of each estate, its terroir and its maker. A way to taste the portfolio properly before you commit to it.
Winemaker dinners
Hosted dinners that bring the winemaker to the table alongside invited guests — food paired to the wines, the story told first-hand. An evening, not a sales pitch.
Corporate events
Wine-led events for companies — client entertainment, team occasions, launches and year-end functions. We handle the wine, the pairing and the experience end to end.
The LAB Wine Club
A membership for wine drinkers and collectors — curated selections from the portfolio delivered through the year, with access to releases, tastings and member dinners.
We work both sides of the glass.
From the people who pour and sell the wine to the farms and makers who grow it — and the companies who want wine at the centre of an occasion.
The trade & the table
Restaurants & hotels
Lists built and supplied, with wines that fit the kitchen and the margin.
Retailers & specialist stores
A focused range that sells, with the story to support it on the shelf.
Sommeliers
Considered, estate-level recommendations — and the wines to back them.
Collectors & wine clubs
Access to limited releases, aged Cap Classique and cult Cape reds.
Wine drinkers
The LAB Wine Club, tastings and dinners — a way in for the curious.
Corporates
Wine-led events, client entertainment and functions, handled end to end.
The producers
Wine farms & estates
Representation that understands the wine and sells it with care, not volume for its own sake.
Winemakers
A route to the South African trade through a partner who carries a deliberately small book.
Six estates, each with its own story.
Tap any to read the story and see the wines.
Morgenster
A 300-year-old Helderberg estate revived by Italian founder Giulio Bertrand — Bordeaux blends, Italian varietals and celebrated olive oil.
View brand →Taaibosch
The revival of the 1990s cult wine Cordoba, on its original steep slopes — a single Cabernet Franc-led Cape Bordeaux, Crescendo.
View brand →Le Chant du Coq
A French house’s tribute to the Huguenots — Merlot-led red blends and Cape Chenin from the historic Polkadraai.
View brand →Pink Valley
The only winery in South Africa built exclusively for rosé — pale, dry, Provençal in style.
View brand →GM&Ahrens
A boutique house making patiently-aged Cap Classique — Chardonnay and Pinot Noir, bone-dry, around ten thousand bottles a vintage.
View brand →Aslina
The label of Ntsiki Biyela, South Africa’s first Black female winemaker — the Umsasane Bordeaux blend and a range of Cape whites.
View brand →Talk to the right person.
Three points of contact, by what you need.
Bongani Mataboge
Brings on new trade — retailers, restaurants and other sellers — and signs the farms and winemakers LAB represents.
bongani@labwineandspirits.comAmos Sobashe
Runs sales across the portfolio and leads events — tastings, winemaker dinners and corporate functions.
amos@labwineandspirits.comMashudu Neluheni
Leads marketing and the technology behind it — the brand, the digital presence and how LAB reaches its market.
mashudu@labwineandspirits.com
Stock our wines, list them, or host an evening around them.
For the trade pricelist, a wine list, a tasting, a winemaker dinner, a corporate event, the wine club, or to have your estate represented — start here.