Sk’windjiesvlei

Excellent served with game and grilled or roasted red meat.

This vineyard was planted in 1962 on the decomposed granite soils of the Paardeberg. The vineyard has South East exposition and is 5.5 ha in extent – many of the vines are missing due to years of struggle. We layer long shoots into the ground on an annual basis to fill in the missing gaps. These shoots then form roots underground and the new vine is then an extension of its “mother”.

When fermentation is almost completed, the tank is pressed and the must is moved to 2000L vats for 11 months.

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. Half of the bunches are destemmed and everything is fermented in a concrete tank while being pumped over once daily.

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.