The Courtney Family of South Africa offers a profound portfolio of experiences - each uniquely designed to reconnect you with personal meaning and the living world. Their ethos is shaped by the father’s career as a hostage negotiator, a life lived at the tenuous threshold of life and death, where focus, presence and the value of every moment are absolute.

​

Home is a wine and Fynbos farm in the Cape Winelands, in a valley that was once a Stone Age settlement. Vintages are shaped by the stone tools of an extinct human lineage buried in the soil, connecting each bottle to the deep origins of humanity. The valley itself is compelling, forming a natural amphitheatre for a breathtaking sunset phenomenon: a vast, illuminated human-like silhouette on the mountain that may well have sparked cognitive evolution as far back as two million years ago.

​

From immersive retreats in landscapes echoing human origin, to mountain journeys that intrigue, to the intimate revelation of a personal portrait, their collective vision creates contemporary luxury experiences that are rare, powerful and unforgettable.

 

This is a family whose presence, expertise and creativity make Proof of Life®

a living testament to what it means to truly feel alive.

​