Sout Van Die Aarde Palomino

Pairing with salty nibbles as an aperitif or alongside fresh seafood, sushi or tapas.

The West Coast of South Africa is the wilder part of the country. 150km North of our winery you will find this vineyard on the farm Brakkuil. The old vines stand high out above the sandy topsoil and their roots go deep into the limestone bedrock. The salty sea winds and mists drench their leaves making this an utterly unique site.

This wine spent 11 months in 2 x 500L casks before it was bottled with a small sulphur addition.

Very straightforward winemaking approach – grapes pressed whole bunch and the juice run off into older vats for fermentation.

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.