Badenhorst Family Wines

Adi Badenhorst makes wine the traditional way on Kalmoesfontein.

When we revolted…

Posted on November 23, 2011 by quietriotgirl

Pictures from the 2011 Swartland Revolution. We know we are a tad late, but it took us a while to recover, and then we wanted to wait for the full selection of pictures from ‘neighbour’ (it’s a long bumpy drive to the Porseleinberg, but we still consider Callie & Maree neighbours) and photographer Maree, cause you know, we like to be a little different.

So here is our alternative choices of images from a revolution. If you missed it you missed out!

Oh goody (bag)!

Quality first – Olivier Clape

Revolutionary BBQ (by Reuben Riffel) at Bazaar.

entertainment from Die Baardskeerdersbos Orkes! ‘dis n lekker ou jan…’

Adi’s soap box from where he told many charming lame jokes while moderating the Expert Opinions tasting.

lunch at bar bar black sheep!

Jasper receiving our official Swartland Independent decanter from Eben Sadie just before the street party!

Till next year!

The 2012 Swartland Revolution will take place on 9 & 10 November. Ticket sales will open in March 2012, start saving… Read more here / or follow the revolution on twitter / or like it on the book of faces.

More pictures from our first open day.

Posted on October 31, 2011 by quietriotgirl

“We few, we happy few.” – Shakespeare’s Henry V

Here are some pictures of the lucky guests who got tickets in time for our first ever open day on Kalmoesfontein. Lunch is served!

Forests, Harrods and other stories from the North…

Posted on October 31, 2011 by quietriotgirl

Some news from the United Kingdom and Europe.

One of our loyal customers in the UK, Mark Bedford, sent us a picture of him enjoying our Secateurs Red Blend in the forest after foraging for some mushrooms.

He writes:
“Here is the picture of me on a day’s wild forage – leaves, berries, wood pigeon, a few fungi – in a big forest in Oxfordshire, just last Saturday. Your wine went very well with seared wood pigeon breasts gently poached in a hawthorn, sloe and rosehip syrup, all from berries picked an hour earlier. Outstanding tucker and great wine match – though I had to share my bottle with other foragers who had not done the same detailed forward planning since ‘bottle of red wine’ was not in their kit list!”

Proof that our wine even tastes great from a plastic cup:

In other parts of the Northern Hemisphere we are very proud to have our Family Wines and Secateurs on prominent display in Harrods in London and Berlin:

As for us back home, we are excitedly counting down the days (11) till The Swartland Revolution. Bring on 11.11.11!

Proudly Swartland Products

Posted on October 12, 2011 by quietriotgirl

Below, all the contact details for the suppliers who filled our “Plaaswinkel” with their amazing products at our Open Day last weekend.

Camphill Village Malmesbury

Tammy Mulder

t.021-571 8600

e. natural@camphill.org.za

w. http://www.camphillwestcoast.org.za/

Cara Brink (macaroons, baked goods & more)

e. carabrink@hotmail.com

w. www.carabrink.blogspot.com

Colleen Lesch jnr (Clothing Design)

c. 073 2266815

e. Colleen.lesch@gmail.com

Duvets, chickens, organic beetroot etc

Colleen Lesch snr

c. 083 457 8999

e. klipfontein@paarlonline.co.za

Growing Paper

Roxanne Vorster

c. 071 472 7173

e. roxanne@growingpaper.co.za

w. www.growingpaper.co.za

La Rhine Slaghuis / Butchery

Christo Smit

c. 073 182 4840

e. larhine@paarlonline.co.za

Meant to be Design and stationary

Elsje Burger

e. elsje@meanttobe.co.za

w. http://luvmeanttobe.blogspot.com/

Porseleinberg Organic Eggs

Callie Louw

e. callie@porseleinberg.co.za

Prince Albert Olives

t. 023 541 1687

e. info@princealbertolives.co.za

w. www.princealbertolives.co.za

Ruf & Tuf recycled toys

Ron Sheridan

t. 083 425 1930

e. aabadenhorstwine@gmail.com

Trevor Rinkwest Antiques

Trevor Rinkwest

c. 082 7277433

Official pictures – Lunch of Origin Swartland

Posted on October 5, 2011 by quietriotgirl

Neighbour, friend, photographer. Maree Louw is our favourite and first choice photographer when it comes to events.

Here are some of her pics from our first open day on Kalmoesfontein this weekend:

for more visit her blog here: http://naturallightphotography.co.za/view/blog/families/badenhorst-family-wines-open-day-swartland/

Swartland saving France

Posted on October 5, 2011 by quietriotgirl

Adi is on his way with Eben and Chris to introduce the French to Swartland wines soon. Between THIS & 2011 Swartland Revolution poster I’m seeing WAY too much skin…

The One-Day-Only invasion on Saturday October 15th will include two events.

First, a FREE tasting with 3 classes:
one to introduce Swartland with Eben’s wines,
one with Chris & Stéphane Ogier (our imported guest at 2010 Revolution)
and one with Adi presenting our wines.

This will take place in a wine cellar in the Latin Quarter of Paris starting at 3pm.

Secondly there will be a wine dinner with a menu to pair with Mullinuex and Badenhorst Wines in a secret location.

Anyone interested in participating can contact Raffi Gabeyan via email at raffi.gabeyan@gmail.com.

Lunch of Origin: Swartland

Posted on October 4, 2011 by quietriotgirl

The menu from our first open day, prepared by Adi’s mom Judy Badenhorst and a few hardworking friends and family members.

Wine + water and bread + butter

A salad, delicious, of beetroot, radishes and baby spinach and red onions with goats cheese and finished with a balsamic, mustard and honey dressing (The crunchy green things are pumpkin seeds)

Green garden salad with a salsa verde dressing (fancy name for a green herb dressing) with capers and anchovies

There are two kinds of quiches (free range duck eggs used here) of caramilized onions one with gruyere cheese and the other with smoked bacon

If that’s not enough then there will also be farm raised marinated chicken braaied to perfection on old cabernet sauvignon vines ( we have no use for cabernet here other than for braaing on). The chicken will be served with roasted root vegetables of carrots, parsnips, onions and above ground butternut.

And there is even dessert. We have made a jelly from Fernoa Pires straw wine 2009, a homemade custard and stewed rhubarb and apple.

Coffee and tea.

This picture, thanks to Santie le Roux:

more pictures, by our official photographer Maree Louw, coming soon!

Cottage life…

Posted on September 27, 2011 by quietriotgirl

We told you a while ago that you can now come stay in the cottage on Kalmoesfontein by booking through Perfect Hideaways. This weekend we had our first guests; Lisa Fullstone and her family spent the weekend on the farm and sent us some lovely pictures.

In her e-mail, subjected “Kalmoesfontein – a boy, a dog, a farm” Lisa wrote:

“We had a lovely weekend, we really enjoyed the farm and the dogs! Our 5 year old Sam fell in love with the dogs and spent hours playing with them, he also got to meet Badenhorst 5 year old Samuel and they played really nicely together.

We loved the farm, the dogs, the garden, Fortuin, the birdlife and mostly the peace and quiet.. and the VIEW!!! did I mention the view! and the Swartland heat, and the wines…”

Sound good? Then book your weekend and come enjoy it for yourself…

Washing barrels

Posted on September 21, 2011 by quietriotgirl

Recently we told you about the new (old) barrels we bought for the cellar and how Razvan at Nederburg gave us a few tips on how to clean them. We have started to move the smaller barrels out of the cellar and have washed out the new (old) barrels.

As you know, everything we do on Kalmoesfontein is a family affair, so it was no surprise that little Ana Kalander wanted to keep an eye on her dad while he performed this important task.