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AA Badenhorst Wine
The property is owned by the dynamic and
good looking cousins Hein and Adi
Badenhorst. They are originally from
Constantia. Their grandfather was the farm
manager of Groot Constantia for 46 years.
Their fathers were born there and farmed
together in Constantia, during the days when
people still ate fresh vegetables and Hanepoot
grapes, drank Cinsault and there were a lot
less traffic lights and hippies still had a
presence. Together these two have restored a
neglected cellar on the farm that was last
used in the 1930′s to make natural wines in
the traditional manner.
Andre Adriaan Badenhorst’s grandfather was
the general manager at Groot Constantia for
46 years. His father was born there and
farmed on neighboring Buitenverwachting
and Constantia Uitsig for many years. Adi
grew up between the vineyards and spent his
time picking (stealing) grapes. “It all started
when Jean Daneel, then winemaker at
Buitenverwachting, let me make my first wine
when I was thirteen,” Adi recalls.
After completing his studies at Elsenburg, Adi
worked a few harvests at Chateau Angelus,
Alain Graillot in the north Rhone, France and
Wither Hills in New Zealand and did stints at
local cellars Simonsig, Steenberg, Groote Post
and nine years as winemaker at the esteemed
Stellenbosch estate, Rustenberg.
In 2008 he packed it all in and bought a 60-
hectare piece of land in the Paardeberg with
his cousin Hein. They now proudly farm
together, practice biological farming and make
natural wines in the traditional manner.
On Kalmoesfontein it is back to basics, using
traditional winemaking equipment and old
cement kuipe. “We make wines with immense
character. We’re using what we can afford. We
are making the best wines we can. And we
are having great experiences. I want to make
something, involving interaction from my
family.”
Today Adi Badenhorst is an award winning
winemaker, member of the Cape Winemakers
Guild, founding member of the Swartland
Revolution and Swartland Independent,
proud dad to Samuel Sunnyskies & Ana
Kalander and ever evolving Vigneron. |
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