VINTAGE SOUTH AFRICA is a story about wine, wife swapping, and a world citizen's journey to change her life--and the village she now calls home.

On the verge of turning 40, American entrepreneur Pat Brookes buys a vineyard in South Africa, hell-bent on winning the New World Wine award and earning gold stars as a wife and mother. Her quest becomes complicated when she learns that the country's best champagne making valley is also the wife swapping capital of South Africa.

Pat’s Scottish husband Mac turns into a disenchanted house spouse when he is forced to retire from the Hong Kong Police Force and end his 30-year crusade against white-collar crime. Mac withdraws from his wife as he struggles to recast himself as a Cantonese chef and chief wrangler of the couple's 4 year-old daughter Maddy.  

Jacques Nel further threatens Pat's happiness in her new life. The talented ninth-generation winemaker has two burning ambitions: to win the world’s top bubbly prize and to seduce the American interloper.  

Ayanda Nkayi, the pioneering black female winemaker Pat recruits to challenge the local establishment and to infiltrate the American bubbly market, forces Pat to put her values under the microscope.  The transformation process that has swept the rest of South Africa has been slow to take hold in Breedehoek. The two outsiders confront a wall of resistance.  Together, they combat racism, xenophobia, and Fetal Alcohol System, a legacy of the dop system when workers were paid in wine. The women embrace the power of education to accelerate change.