Ringmuur Cinsault

Seafood paella, Indian curry.

This vineyard was planted in the mid 1963 on decomposed granite soils surrounded on two sides by an old farm ring wall. The vineyard is tiny and completely different from our other Cinsault vineyards. The total yield is 950kg of wonderful grapes.

After 20 days of fermentation all the wine is transferred to a 600L vat. This wine was bottled unfiltered and unfined, directly off its gross lees after 11 months in cask.

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 whole bunches undergo carbonic fermentation in a small, sealed tank.

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.