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Badsberg Cellar

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Address

Breedekloof Wine Route Grootte Vlakte, Rawsonville, 6845

Phone

023 344 3021

info@badsberg.co.za

Website

https://badsberg.co.za/

Open Times

09:00 - 17:00

Price Range

R0 - R0

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Against the hill, a stone throw away from the well-known Goudini-spa holiday resort also previously known as Goudini-bad and because of that, the mountain received the name Badsberg. This is where the cellar was built in 1951 and was also named Badsberg wine cellar. Golden years: Badsberg and Hanepoot wines were synonyms to each other in the early years of the cellar. They were born for each other and intertwined with these is the Bothas, Le Roux’s, Stofbergs, Viljoens, Brinks and the Van der Merwes. It’s their world, the area of Rawsonville and Goudini, the land of the pink summer sun and wet, icy winters, effervescent streams, rugged cliffs and vines like a vast carpet on the valley floor and wrinkles of the mountains that lie as far as the eye can see. Badsberg First Cellar: The strip, that divides the coast from the dry country, was previously known for their hanepoot grapes. The heat of summer and the deep, dark hanepoot soil of the valley provided great sugar levels for the grapes. On a few farms, in their farm cellars, small amounts of wine were made for the use of distillation and table wines, when things started to go wrong on the overseas raisin market, they only had one way to go: to make wine! South Africa became popular for the distribution of wine to Brittain. The war in Europe caused the negligence of the vineyards and the cellars started to run out of wine. On the other side, the South African consumers discovered white wine – especially the sweet, but dry – with that in mind a range of co-operative cellars formed in the mid-1940s. This was more cost-effectiveness and also provided wine for KWV and other co-operate producers.

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