Bokveld Pinot Noir

Beef, Veal, Game (deer, venison), Poultry

This vineyard was planted in the high altitude Kouebokkeveld are, in the Ceres Plateau appellation. The soils are classified as Glenrosa type which is a gavel leiklip (shale type), well drained soil. The vineyard was planted in 2007.

After 30 days on skins the wine is pressed into 500L casks for a maturation of 11 months. Bottled without filtration or fining.

The grapes are sorted meticulously in the vineyard and transported in small picking boxes to a refrigerated container where they are left overnight to cool. The entire volume of grapes is destemmed and fermented in small bins with occasional half pigeage attempts during the active fermentation.

AA Badenhorst Family Wines are grown, made and matured on Kalmoesfontein farm in the Swartland appellation of South Africa. 28ha of old bushvines grow in the Siebritskloof part of the Paardeberg mountain. The property is owned by the baie dynamic and good looking cousins Hein and Adi Badenhorst. They are originally from Constantia. Their grandfather was the farm manager of Groot Constantia for 46 years. Their fathers were born there and farmed together in Constantia, during the days when people still ate fresh vegetables and Hanepoot grapes, drank Cinsault and there were a lot less traffic lights and hippies still had a presence. Together these two have restored a neglected cellar on the farm that was last used in the 1930′s to make natural wines in the traditional manner.