Kalmoesfontein White Blend

The warm earthy notes of the wine will suite a tomato-based casserole beautifully, or a rich cheese fondue!

Small parcels of selected fruit are sourced from various vineyards on our farm Kalmoesfontein and the surrounding Paardeberg.

We only use a 1200L foudres and a 3000L foudre for the fermentation and maturation. After 10 months the wines are racked and blended in a single concrete tank with all their unsulfured lees and left to settle for another 6 - 8 months before bottling.

The processing is quite straightforward when you work with fantastic grapes from old vineyards. The grapes are cooled down over night and most of the different grapes are pressed together, whole bunch, the next morning. The juice is then transferred to old casks for co-fermentation and maturation. A small percentage of the grapes are picked a bit earlier for some acidity but the rest are picked at what we recon is a good ripeness and flavour.

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.