Liefde Leegte / Love Loss

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A solo exhibition of new paintings by Varenka Paschke

We are proud to be sponsoring the wine for this new show by our good friend Verenka.

Presented by Salon91 Contemporary Art Collection

5 – 29 September 2012

Please join us to celebrate the Opening Night: 19h30 Wednesday 5 September  Venue: Salon91, 91 Kloof Street, Gardens, Cape Town. Please RSVP.

A limited edition exhibition catalogue – hand-bound and beautifully designed – will be available for sale. The show will conclude at 2pm on Saturday the 29th.

Gallery Hours | Tue – Fri 10 am – 6pm; Sat 10am – 2pm  Closed |  Sun & Mon

Baltimore Bliss

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DC food writer “Tasty Trix” attended our 5-course tasting-pairing in Baltimore recently and wrote a very flattering and fun blogpost about it.

“The dinner was structured around the South African wines of A.A. Badenhorst, and the pairings, conceived by chef Josean Rosado, managed to be smart and inventive without feeling at all gimmicky or forced – all of the elements worked together organically and unforgettably.”

Of Adi she says, quite accurately,

“Although I have not met the winemaker Adi Badenhorst, I suspect that, given what I learned over the course of the evening about his independent spirit and originality both in his approach to winemaking and life, he would definitely approve of such spontaneity.”

See some lovely photos by her husband as well as some nice tasting/pairing notes here.

If you will excuse me, I feel a sudden great hunger coming over me.

With love from Berlin

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I am currently visiting Maike (who worked on Kalmoesfontein this harvest) in Germany and her mom spoiled us with a bottle of her Tesco’s Finest Adi Badenhorst Chenin Blanc.

We thought Adi and Jasper might enjoy some cheesy photos, so these are specially for them…

We both miss the Swartland, and even sent a postcards with “Germany’s most famous varietals” to the entire Kalmoesfontein family last week.

The 2012 Cape Winemakers Guild Auction

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We got a little excited about this year’s auction when we saw this post on Winetimes today.

“A full house of 52 exceptional wines signified by creativity and great diversity of styles in small volumes, will go under the hammer at the 28th Nedbank Cape Winemakers Guild Auction at Spier in the Stellenbosch Winelands on Saturday, 6 October.”

We will be there, with our Cinsault (a new varietal at this year’s event) the AA Badenhorst Family Wines Shatoe Ramnasgras 2011 – on offer in the regular 750 ml and a magnum.

 

Read more here.

Beat my Wors…

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We love a good competition in the Swartland, and if it involves meat and fire, all the more merriment…

This weekend we had the first ever Beat my Wors Paardeberg vs Kasteelberg competition on Porseleinberg.

Anton Espost’s “Swartland TRILogy wors” won, Adi calls it “Die drie eenheid van wors!”

Winning!

Lammershoek represent.

 

 

The Kents

tavern time.

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Winslow’s Tavern in Wellfleet USA emailed me recently about getting more of our wines onto their winelist. I told Phillip we could do a little post on them stocking our wines and he went one better and did a post himself!

Not only do they stock our entire range but they also stock the Mullineux’s wines and soon will have Eben Sadie’s Columella and Palladius wines back on the list.

Great support for the Swartland from accross the seas. Thanks for the support.
Read their post and visit them for good Swartland wines if you are ever in Massachusetts.