On Saturday our financial manager Gerrie got out of his office chair, put on some shorts and left the aircon behind to come help harvest on Kalmoesfontein. He brought his cute kids to lend another two pairs of hands (we are all for child labour here in the Swartland).
The “karookop shiraz” was everywhere.
Jasper sustained some minor injuries, but nothing worth writing home blogging about.
Only stumbled upon this post about our OesAf festival today. The Foodie remembers being there, enjoying great wines and even better (possible?) braai broodjies.
He tackled a dog.
Caught Jasper in some funky “jhorts” (jean shorts)
And “hugged Kingsley Holgate” 🙂
Partyberg in-deed…
Read about his adventure here: http://thefoodie.co.za/uncategorized/the-paardeberg-the-partyberg/
Yesterday we harvested the last block of grapes. The very old Cinsault bush-vines in front of the Cellar were planted in 1964!
That’s a wrap for the Kalmoesfontein Harvest of 2011, now we start crafting the wine in the cellar!
On Saturday friends and family gathered at the cellar for the annual “Stomping of the grapes.”
As usual our talented neighbour, photographer Maree Louw captured some lovely moments on camera.
The harvest is in full swing on Kalmoesfontein. Everyone has jumped in to help get the grapes in to the cellar in the scorching Swartland sun.
Jasper Wickens, is once again our assistant winemaker and even young Samuel Badenhorst is getting in on the action (winemaker in training!)
Our neighbour Barry Schreiber was there to count every berry of Chenin Blanc and we have a female French import, harvest hand Helena Kotzev. Here they are loading the press.
Badenhorst Family Wines 