Caperitif

Excellent enjoyed on its own or with baked quinces, almond biscotti and mascarpone cheese.

A portion of each batch is matured in old oak casks and blended back into the “fresh” CAPERITIF to add even more complexity to the final product.

To this wine, a neutral grape-derived alcohol spirit is added to increase the alcohol to 16.5vol%. Once this is level of alcohol is achieved, we follow the propriety recipe or formula and add 46 different ingredients. These ingredients include a variety of fruits, garden herbs, spices, a bouquet of various flowers, some roots and barks for bitterness as well as the distinctive and unique Fynbos. Fynbos is the collective name for the 8500 different species of plants that grow here in the Cape Floral Region. Many of these plants have been harvested and utilised for medicinal purposes for thousands of years and are intensely aromatic, imparting a unique aroma to the CAPERITIF

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.