Klip Kop Steen

Shellfish, Spicy food, Lean fish, Mild and soft cheese

The single vineyard was planted in 1966 on a rough, exposed granite outcrop. The 0.6ha yields around 1200L of juice. The name Klip Kop (“Rock Head”) is the original name of the site and refers to the granite rocks on this hill.

The wine stays on its gross lees for the entirety of its maturation thereafter it is bottled without any fining or filtration.

Grapes are handpicked into picking crates and chilled overnight in a cool room. The parcel is pressed together without destemming and the juice is run-off directly to a very old 1200L foudre. The fermentation takes a few months to complete naturally.

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.