Farm Stories

Quickly established as one of the finest white wines in South Africa is the Anysbos Disdit from the 2023 vintage. It is a Chenin Blanc dominated bl...

  Happy Happy!  TESAME 2021 - 95 It came as a surprise. A welcome surprise. A gift. A Krismisboks. In November. And did we need it. The past two m...

Monday night, the bridge over the Botriver re-opened after almost six weeks. Botriver is now ten minutes away. And the airport seventy minutes inst...

  Niels Verburg keeps saying that Botriver, note not Botrivier, is the centre of the universe. I often wondered about this until now. Two weeks ag...

The Anysbos Disdit has quickly become 'a model of excellence for the Cape White Blend category', says Christian Eedes. Marelise Niemann, Tim Atkin'...

Winter is on its way. The sun shines straight into my office in the mornings. I can not do anything on the computer. And, the olives are picked an...

Despite the real chance of rain we decided to not pick the last block of grenache on Friday. Ok, our arses were covered by some very good grenache...

By the time you read this it would have been a day earlier. Thirty-nine millimetres. Not fourty.  Like 93 is two points less ...

Round here you know when the seasons change. Green wheat and oats, yellow Canola and our forever-changing blue skies and white clouds. And the gui...

“My love for grenache came from something inside of me, it’s a feeling,” says winemaker Marelise Niemann. “It’s such a vibrant, soft and gentle gra...

We're humbled and surprised by the latest Platter’s by Diners Club South African Wine Guide 2022 results, to say the least. The Tesame 2019, our m...

She grew up on Vrede, the farm next to ours. Fourth child of Willem and Cornelia Davids. Her mother calls her Suzette but we, and the whole valley...