Before his appointment at Klein Constantia in 2003, Adam Mason spent two years as general manager/winemaker for international wine services South Africa (the wine production division of Scottish & Newcastle). Prior to that, he was based in France as a contract winemaker for Laithwaite’s, the world’s largest wine mail order company with cellars in Bordeaux, Languedoc-Roussillon, the Rhone valley, province and the var. During this four-year period, he also worked alternate harvests in South Africa (at Boschendal and Flagstone). Originally from Johannesburg, where he attended Sandown high school, mason received his bsc in oenology and viticulture from the university of Stellenbosch in 1997.