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Tamboerskloof wines
& de Boerin
Visit Kleinood Farm
Kleinood Farm is open
Monday to Saturday
10am to 4pm
Open on Public Holidays
Closed every Sunday
Closed on 25, 26 & 27 December 2025
Closed on 1 & 2 January 2026
i. This is the farm
Kleinood is a small farm with just twelve hectares of arable land. Of these, ten hectares are devoted to vines, with the remaining two under olive trees. The rest of the farm is left wild or planted with fynbos, roses and vegetables.
What’s in a name?
Everything on and about Kleinood is rooted in the history of our family as well as in the Cape and the Boland, because we believe that it is important to belong, to have a heritage and to take care of the things that came before us and that put us here. Naming something is giving it an identity of its own in terms of its origin and the world in which it has to find its way.
Thus, we named the
farm Kleinood;
the Afrikaans word from Dutch and German origin, meaning “something small and precious”.
We chose to call our wines Tamboerskloof after the suburb in Cape Town where we lived before moving to Kleinood. It is here, in this suburb, against Signal Hill, where our children were born and grew up and where the dream of Kleinood began.
ii. The Wines
De Villiers families have left deep footprints in the history of the South African wine industry through the centuries. Tamboerskloof wines from Kleinood are no exception.
iii. de Boerin
of Goodly Things
On the small farm called Kleinood, there is a tiny shop in a beautiful little stone cottage in a very old oak avenue. Through the windows you can see vineyards and the mountain and on the tin roof you can hear the acorns fall in summer and the rain in winter.
In this little cottage a small group of women started a small enterprise called de Boerin. They have chosen not to affiliate with any movement, ideology or trend and have simply set out to make the things they love and march to the beat of their own drum.
From our home
to your home
de Boerin
Pantry
Produce from Kleinood farm tended and harvested by capable hands and made with generosity and care.
Because of the nature of Kleinood, where everything happens organically and often by pure coincidence, the acclaimed de Boerin Extra Virgin Olive oil was originally the only de Boerin product. De Boerin Syrah Verjus followed. Only when our bees were settled did we start harvesting and bottling the much loved de Boerin honey. Then we started making our olive oil & beeswax soap…
de Boerin
Florilegium
A gathering of flowers, or collection of fine extracts from the Kleinood gardens.
As the Kleinood gardens grew and became more bountiful with each new spring, the flowers and scents brought the need to create objects and extracts that capture the delight and beauty of these enchanting moments. And so the mist, the candles, the wax tablets, the potpourri and so much more came into being.
de Boerin
Terroir Parfum
A collection of terroir driven perfume inspired and composed around the natural qualities and attributes of Kleinood Farm.
On Kleinood Farm we have always put terroir first in the wine we make. So too, it is ever present in our olive oil, verjus and honey. Why then, if one could taste terroir, could one not wear it and smell it and smell of it?
de Boerin
Garments
The volume, femininity and grace, the ease with which she wears her ample skirt and rolled up sleeves. She is unapologetically voluptuous. Her skirts are ample and her hands are firm and able.
de Boerin is not a fashionable concept of a woman, nor do her clothes prescribe her movement or her shape. Instead, the garments fulfil a purpose and allow her to do what she needs to do and be who she needs to be.
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iv. A Garden to
Walk in…
When driving down the narrow dust road, fringed with Sage wood trees and Wisteria, to the de Villiers family home and winery, one soon realises that Kleinood is not only about wine.
“A little garden in which to walk, and immensity in which to dream. At one’s feet that which can be cultivated and plucked; overhead that which one can study and meditate upon: some flowers on earth and all the stars in the sky.”
– Victor Hugo
v. Read farm news in
De Krant
Get up to date on the goings-on of Kleinood; what we’ve been up to, what inspires us and where we’re going next.
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