Monday, April 11, 2011

News and updates

While Adi is in the USA life continues on Kalmoesfontein.


I finally received (two!) images from the Swartland Oesaf Party (harvest festival) that was held on Kalmoesfontein on April 1st. The venue and the Rosé at the venue... Hopefully someone will send more pics soon!






Other news is that we bottled some Secateurs Red blend 2010 last week (more info and notes on this wine soon) and this week it is time to bottle some Rosé...





And Adi gets mentioned in a post about South Africa's wine of origin on the Montreal Gazette...


"Swartland:
 This is the new frontier in South African wines. Winemakers like Eben Sadie (Sadie Family Wines), Craig Hawkins (Lammershoek) and Adi Badenhorst (Badenhorst Family Wines), all love their chenin blanc, and for the most part eschew technological winemaking and concentrate on grape growing. As Sadie preached, “We are on the 33rd parallel. Why are we trying to grow grapes that are best on the 44th (Bordeaux)?”


So this the place for the syrah, mourvèdre and other heat-loving vines."


Take note of Swartland. he says... well IN-DEED...


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