Peter Vinding-Diers’ love affair with winemaking began in the early 1960s when he was a French lit student at the Sorbonne in Paris. A friend offered him a lift to the south of France in a factory-fresh Triumph TR4. Zipping through Burgundy’s bush-trained vineyards, Vinding-Diers had a revelation.

He loved wine and working in nature. So, what if he combined the two passions and became a vigneron? At 79, Vinding-Diers has led one of wine’s most notably peripatetic and romantic careers on three continents, journeying from South Africa and Bordeaux to South America and Eastern Europe.