By David & Nadia SadieCopy editing by Anna-Bet Stemmet Thomas Jefferson famously said, “In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.” This made us think, and we realised just how important resilience is in the times that we live in today. Tough times force us to stand […]

You don’t have to go far for insight to Swartland wines. It’s right there on the label. A unique environment Hof Street Winery dedicates a range of wines to a threatened indigenous plant known as Renosterbos (Dicerothamnus rhinocerotis). The shrub is rather demure compared to others with more colourful arrays, but it is the dominant […]

While the rest of South Africa spent the larger part of the countrywide COVID-19 lockdown bunkered down and waiting for the penny to drop, the Babylon’s Peak team were hard at work tending the land and forging the way forward for this much-loved Swartland brand. “Since we had permits to keep our staff on during […]

By Danie Malan At Allesverloren we do everything for the love of wine. The work on a farm never ends, not even in times of a world-wide pandemic, at present we are preparing for the pruning season. Our vineyards are ideally situated and the various micro-climates on the farm create the perfect conditions for producing […]

Coming this way, everyone in the car was silent as if overcome at the change of scenery from that which it had been in our respective cases, for seemingly endless weeks. Then, Johan said to no-one in particular, “I’ve taken so many pictures of that wind pump”. The lollypop structure in an open field whizzed […]

Kalmoesfontein might be best known as the home of AA Badenhorst Family Wines’ diverse range of liquor, but we just launched a new website focussing on the farm as a venue, location and accommodation getaway so today we’re talking werf.  When Adi and his cousin Hein bought the property in 2008 the cellar was a […]

Reflections in the times of COVID by Alicia Hanekom I’m on my way back from our local town where I had to buy much needed supplies for home. It takes a while before the electronic gate opens and in that moment I breathe. Something inside me just lets go. Maybe it’s all the stress of […]

There’s been plenty of talk about the “return of nature” during lockdown. The camera-trap photograph of the leopard at Paardeberg’s Kalmoesfontein (Badenhorst Family Wines) might have come across your newsfeed recently. The Swartland is of course no stranger to nature-lovers. The region with its open skies, uncluttered hills and mountains have always been the ideal […]