Winemaker
Simon Von Witt
- Discipline
- Winemaker
- Based in
- Cape Town, South Africa
i. Biography
The record is spare: one maker, one company, one neighborhood, one spirit. Simon Von Witt’s work reads cleanly because the facts do—Woodstock Gin Company, Woodstock, gin. Even his own line lands that way: “I'm a tasting area and also coffee room.” It sounds like a working space with public edges, somewhere production and hospitality share the same counter.
Coming Up
At Woodstock Gin Company, the craft sits with Simon Von Witt in both the founding and the distilling. That pairing matters. It means the same hand that set the business in motion is also responsible for the spirit in the bottle, with the decisions of structure and style staying close to the bench. In gin, that kind of ownership tends to show up in the way a product carries itself: direct, legible, and built to be recognized.
Signature
The repeated Inception name points to a line of work developed across more than one format, while High Tea Gin and Woodstock Original Gin sit in different registers of naming and identity. Taken together, the list shows a practice built around naming as much as formulation, with each release keeping the same underlying discipline.
In Their Words “I'm a tasting area and also coffee room.” The line is blunt, but it does the job. It describes a place where tasting, conversation, and service sit in the same frame, without dressing the work up any further than needed. That kind of phrasing usually comes from operations that are close to the floor: practical, a little dry, and more interested in function than display.
Profile updated July 2026
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Where did Simon Von Witt work before?
No earlier workplace is included in his career arc.
What is Simon Von Witt's current role?
Simon Von Witt is a winemaker at Woodstock Gin Company in Cape Town.
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