On Saturday, after a “very serious tasting with my friend Graham who makes wine there as well as two real SA wine ambassadors Chuck and Jim from JJ Buckley wines and K&L Wine Merchants” Adi visited a fresh food market in San Francisco,
| 13 August | Marcel van der Walt from Veenwouden Winery |
| 17 August | Craig Hawkins from Lammershoek Winery |
| 31 August | Dieter Sellmeyer from Lynx Wines |
| 14 September | Adi Badenhorst from AA Badenhorst Family Wines |
| 28 September | Arnold Voster from Graham Beck Wines |
| 5 October | Johnnie Calitz from Anura Winery |
This week our winemaker Mr Adi Badenhorst himself hops on a plane to the U.S of A again and leaves wife Cornelia with the kids on the farm.
We hope he gets time to fill us in on his travels as he goes from New York to San Fran and down to Jacksonville in Florida, so that we can keep up with the American adventures.
Watch this space as Malmesbury goes to New York baby!
Cape based Food and Wine Critic Jean-Pierre Rossouw talked to House and Leisure SA about his new book Tasting the Cape in their Juny Issue.
They asked him if there are any new wineries he has his eye on, and what do you know…
Read a review on his new book here, or check out House and Leisure for more!
Not only is this site designed and build of our close friend Morne Fischer, it also features Jamie Who (who blogged about us a while ago, and vice versa) as well as our first stab at online advertising (or any advertising for that matter) for our wines.
Africionado is a lifestyle website that brings you the best in high-end blogs, created by Justine Stafford of IFor1 Independent Fashion Blog and her Aficionado co-conspirators…
Have a look at http://aficionado.co.za/ – we recommend it!
London based Jamie Goode blogs about his visit to Kalmoesfontein in a lovely tribute to Adi, his mad skills and the lovely piece of Swartland valley where we make our wines.
Includes nice images of our much loved Peet Pienaar labels as well. Read the lovely article here.
Sarie (Suid Afrika se beste verkoper onder vroue tydskrifte en ‘n vriendin vir elke vrou) gee nou ook n mans kos tydskrif uit. Die konsep is effe vreemd, maar maak goed sin.
En natuurlik hou ons daarvan dat hul van ons wyn hou!
In die eerste uitgawe (Augustus 2010) besoek hul Bar-Bar-Black Sheep op Riebeek Kasteel (ook een van ons gunsteling restuarante) en geniet die witversnit saam met n kreef hoofgereg.
Lees meer in die tydskrif self, of hier bo. Hul weet ook die Swartland is die nuwe plek om te wees…
A while ago we blogged about Danish photographer Linda Suhr’s book on South African wine, called ‘A Passion for Wine & Surf’ which featured our farm.
This weekend Neil Pendock caught on as he searched for a decent book on the local wine industry in his local Exclusive Books…
And he even calls Adi a beefcake… Referring to this image
Read more here.
The Swartland has a very special place in my heart. Grandma and Grandpa laid their foundation there in the 1950’s on an old tobacco farm just outside Malmesbury. My parents got married in the church across the road from where they still live today. I am a born and bred Swartlander (Swartland Hospital, Swartland Pre-Primary, Swartland Primary, Swartland High School… if there was a University of the Swartland… you get the picture…)
Seven years later I am very much a Capetonian (apparently you only become a Cape Town local after six winters, “they” say) but it still feels a bit like going home every time I pass Atlantis on the N7.
Nowadays more of the family have discovered the joy of the Swartland as Adi, Cornelia, Samuel and Ana has made Kalmoesfontein their home – where Adi make wine, the natural way.
And the rest of the world is catching on – as the Swartland gets more and more mentions as the new hot thing on the local wine scene. Swart is the new black…
Read what the WOSA blog thinks as they reminisce about the old days, and get excited about the new generation of top class wine makers (like Adi) shaking things up… Read it here!
(footnote: I = the blogger = Cornelia Badenhorst’s cousin. Our mothers are sisters and grew up on that tobacco farm, Swartlanders to the bone as well)
I love adjectives, they make any piece of writing so much more interesting, they explain what the writer means and how they felt. It gives you a complete picture.
And to hear extremely positive adjectives like ‘inspired’ (packaging), ‘impeccable’ (content) and ‘top class’ mentioned in conjunction with our wines in this month’s House & Leisure magazine is delightful – we are flattered:)
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