FarmerMike™ 👨‍🌾

Owner @Vilafonte winery • Chair @WineBizAdvisors • Chair @StellWineRoute • Chair @VisitStellies • Chair @banhoekchillio1 • Married to FarmerPip™ 👩‍🌾 • Dad

[Greg Sherwood MW @gregsherwoodmw]

My @vilafonte Seriously Old Dirt review of 2015 and 2016 coming out today. I can hear the excitement building. Best premium #secondwine in SA by a long shot. #paarl #bordeauxblend #iconwine

[Wine Business Advisors @winebizadvisors]

Will Hong Kong lead the global revival of the fine wine category?

Wine Business Advisors can assist your business to take advantage of the new normal.
https://t.co/jn5uy7ZRbe @mikeratcliffe @RolandPeens

[FarmerMike™ 👨‍🌾 @mikeratcliffe]

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[FarmerMike™ 👨‍🌾 @mikeratcliffe]

If you know, you know ... @DesmondMabuza and I are back presenting our biennial @Vilafonte evening of fine food, fine wine🍷& jazz at Signature Restaurant Sandton on Wednesday 19 August 2026. I'm bringing my personal selection of great Vilafonté vintages, thoughtfully paired with a bespoke menu by the Signature team. Vilafonté is poured alongside distinguished cuvées from Burgundy & Champagne imported by @ReciprocalWine - RSVP is essential, we will sell out quickly [email protected] to secure your seat. 🍷See you soon.

[FarmerMike™ 👨‍🌾 @mikeratcliffe]

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[Wine Business Advisors @winebizadvisors]

Has the Beverage Alcohol Market Found its Floor?
Read this for some wine industry motivation.

https://t.co/wNEtM2o9as @mikeratcliffe @RolandPeens

[FarmerMike™ 👨‍🌾 @mikeratcliffe]

Hello Jozi - the @Vilafonte & Signature Restaurant extravaganza is back! Join @DesmondMabuza and I on Wednesday 19 August. If you know, you know! Book now, be quick! 👊🏽

https://t.co/qQeVTv2wAG

[FarmerMike™ 👨‍🌾 @mikeratcliffe]

Hello Jozi - the @Vilafonte & Signature Restaurant extravaganza is back! Join @DesmondMabuza and I on Wednesday 19 August. If you know, you know! Book now, be quick! 👊🏽

https://t.co/qQeVTv2wAG

[Wine Business Advisors @winebizadvisors]

Has the Beverage Alcohol Market Found its Floor?
Read this for some wine industry motivation.

https://t.co/wNEtM2o9as @mikeratcliffe @RolandPeens

[Emile Joubert @emilejoubert]

Big on flavour, that dinky

[FarmerMike™ 👨‍🌾 @mikeratcliffe]

Vilafonté is hiring. I would value any personal recommendations for an exceptional recruitment agency with a strong understanding of the South African wine industry — particularly one with a proven ability to identify thoughtful, high-calibre people.
https://t.co/MZcpOf1NdR

[FarmerMike™ 👨‍🌾 @mikeratcliffe]

If you know, you know ... @DesmondMabuza and I are back presenting our biennial @Vilafonte evening of fine food, fine wine🍷& jazz at Signature Restaurant Sandton on Wednesday 19 August 2026. I'm bringing my personal selection of great Vilafonté vintages, thoughtfully paired with a bespoke menu by the Signature team. Vilafonté is poured alongside distinguished cuvées from Burgundy & Champagne imported by @ReciprocalWine - RSVP is essential, we will sell out quickly [email protected] to secure your seat. 🍷See you soon.

[FarmerMike™ 👨‍🌾 @mikeratcliffe]

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[Greg Sherwood MW @gregsherwoodmw]

What an incredible tasting tonight at the iconic @CFWCStrandStr Caroline’s Red Wine Review Tasting. The DHL stadium was rocking!! So lovely to catch up with so many old friends including this rascal… cheekily pouring @Vilafonte Series C 2016 from Magnum! 😅🤷🏼‍♂️🍷

[Geordin Hill-Lewis @geordinhl]

🚨👮‍♂️ BREAKING NEWS: The City of Cape Town has officially declared an intergovernmental dispute with the Acting Minister of Police, over his failure to extend investigation powers to Cape Town Metro Police Officers.

We have tried every collaborative effort to get successive Ministers of Police to do this. Many, including this one, have made supportive noises. But nothing has come of it. We can wait no longer.

Our communities live in daily fear of gang, gun, and drug crime. ❌ SAPS need the help of our officers to build winning dockets, so we can catch and convict more criminals.

[Johan Fourie @JohanFourieZA]

South Africa now counts 63 522 380 people. The number that matters more is our fertility rate of 2,12. Demographers treat 2,1 as the replacement level, the point at which one generation exactly replaces the last. South Africa’s child mortality is still higher than in a rich country, so our true replacement threshold sits a little above 2,1. We may already be under it.

The population is still growing. But the reason has changed. South Africans are living longer, not having more children. Infant mortality has fallen from 59,9 per thousand to 23,7. Life expectancy has reached 68,3 years, the highest Stats SA has recorded. But births peaked in 2008 and have been falling since.

[FarmerMike™ 👨‍🌾 @mikeratcliffe]

Priceless - if you know, you know.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A Toronto man ran 1,105 kilometers (687 miles) over a year, carefully planning his routes to form the shape of a dancing figure.

[Paul Berkowitz @paulyberk]

Guys I went online just to check my voter registration details and it said I should reregister because of changes to the ward / VD boundaries, so I went to the online registration portal. It is very easy, I successfully reregistered in about two minutes.

[FarmerMike™ 👨‍🌾 @mikeratcliffe]

Planning a holiday in Cape Town?
Check out my perfectly located apartment in Green Point over-looking the V&A Waterfront.

https://t.co/AqBCwDykqK

[Emile Joubert @emilejoubert]

The Odyssey: A Wine Dark Farce of Feasts, Fools, and Fermented Follies - Wine Goggle https://t.co/FElWbjTdeW

[FarmerMike™ 👨‍🌾 @mikeratcliffe]

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[Roger Jones @littlebedwyn]

Odd who u bump into in Cape Town at the stadium @WOSA_USA @gregsherwoodmw @mikeratcliffe @TheBuyer11

[2025/2026 EPL & PSL CHAMPIONS 💪🏾 @_Sir_CharlesR]

Keep cooking braMike 🍷

[FarmerMike™ 👨‍🌾 @mikeratcliffe]

🔈'Winemaking runs thick in my blood' - an interesting conversation I had with @StephenGrootes on @CapeTalk @Radio702 - still relevant a year later.

https://t.co/fUufRqP5TR