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High Constantia

A winery photographed from vine to glass — estate, cellar and the people who keep it.

Client
High Constantia
Sector
Food & beverage · Winery
Services
Photography
Year
2025
Location
Estate & cellar
The winery estate building seen from the vineyard

The brief

A wine estate needed images that carried the whole arc of the place — the vineyard in daylight, the cool dark of the cellar, and the quiet end-of-day moment when a glass is finally poured.

The brief was warmth over polish. We followed the day rather than a shot list — vines, barrels, hands, glass — so the set reads as one place across very different light.

Wide view of the wine estate
A winemaker tends the vines in the vineyard
Detail of vines and leaves

"They shot the estate the way it actually feels at the end of a long day — quiet, warm, a little tired. Not a brochure. A portrait."

— project notes
Detail of barrels stacked in the cellar
A quiet, amber-lit corner of the cellar
Detail of the cellar
A winemaker holds a glass of red wine up to the light beside a copper still
A glass of red wine being poured
A bottle of wine in low light
A glass on a stone surface

Deliverables

What we made together.

  • 0135+ retouched photographs, vine to glass
  • 02Vineyard, cellar & estate sets
  • 03Bottle & product still life
  • 04Portrait of the winemaker
  • 05Seasonal asset library for web, trade & press