Wayne Visser

Great Domaines was started by Wayne Visser and was born out of his pure passion to share great wine and great food. After studying law and completing his two year stint at the army Wayne skipped between working at the various Longhorn steakhouses in Johannesburg between 1984 and 1987.

His food and wine interest continued to develop when taking up a position at the internationally styled restaurant, Gatrilles & Son. After leaving in 1988 he began to focus on what he currently does full time, which is run a financial services company.

Wayne began buying wine for his personal cellar from various fine wine merchants in London in the early 1990s, and the passion developed further in the late 1990s when frequent trips to Burgundy were experienced. The purpose of the trips was primarily to seek out and buy/import wines which were elsewhere unavailable.

Thus Great Domaines was born.