Marlie Freitas dos Santos, Author at Kleinood Wine Estate

The Calico Rail by de Boerin

By Marlie Freitas dos SantosGoodly Things

A collection of timeless garments for women who do The shapes are timeless and forgiving - simple, free and unassuming. The fabric is fresh, natural and honest. Shop The Collection Muses Annetjie Boom was a farmer, innkeeper and restaurateur in the Cape in 1665. She...

March 2023

Tamboerskloof John Spicer Syrah 2016

By Marlie Freitas dos SantosNew Vintage

Capturing a special place and moment in time - a story of sun and rain, and wind, and soil - to dance in the magic and method of our winery. Listen while you read: The Kleinood Nocturne https://www.kleinood.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Kleinood_Naturescape_ft.Kyle%20Shepherd.mp3 The Wine...

April 2022

News Letter

By Marlie Freitas dos SantosFarm Stories

Harvest 2022 Lord: it is time. The summer was immense. Lay your shadow on the sundials and let loose the wind in the fields. Bid the last fruits to be full; give them another two more southerly days, press them...

April 2022

In The Spring Of Twenty Twenty-One

By Marlie Freitas dos SantosFarm Stories

There was dirt once, an entire earth That clung to our bare feet when it rained, Scorched them when it hadn’t, Coated our arms when it rose With the dry, furious wind. How obvious, I thought then, That it...

October 2021

Winter Water Parfum

By Marlie Freitas dos SantosGoodly Things

On Kleinood farm we have always put terroir first in the wine we make. So too, it is ever present in our extra virgin olive oil and honey. Why then, if one could taste terroir, could one not wear it and smell...

October 2021

Adornments by de Boerin

By Marlie Freitas dos SantosGoodly Things

de Boerin brings you poppies - small silver adornments made by hand with love, to wear with joy. Women and the bountiful, natural offerings from the Kleinood land was the inspiration behind the objects and extracts that would capture the...

July 2021

Tamboerskloof Syrah 2017

By Marlie Freitas dos SantosNew Vintage

The newly released Tamboerskloof Syrah 2017 awarded 96 points at 2021 Decanter Wine Awards It is with great excitement we wish to report a resounding 96 points awarded for our flagship Tamboerskloof Syrah 2017 in the recently announced 2021 Decanter Wine Awards...

July 2021

The de Boerin Way

By Marlie Freitas dos SantosGoodly Things

The image, by Vincent van Gogh, now representing de Boerin, is not of a successful and enterprising woman. She is an unassuming peasant woman working the land, alone against a stark and bleak landscape. The image depicts her...

June 2021

Kleinood Tamboerskloof John Spicer Syrah 2015

A Sensorial Celebration with the Tamboerskloof John Spicer Syrah 2015

By Marlie Freitas dos SantosNew Vintage

https://www.kleinood.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Kleinood_Naturescape_ft.Kyle%20Shepherd.mp3 This year we are celebrating Kleinood's twenty first birthday. To commemorate our coming of age, we are launching the sixth vintage of our flagship Tamboerskloof John Spicer Syrah in a way we have never explored before... Kleinood is not...

April 2021

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