Melissa de Villiers, Author at Kleinood Farm

The Tasting Room on Kleinood Farm

By Melissa de VilliersFarm Stories

The tasting room on Kleinood is a homely extension of the winery. It captures the intimate and inviting spirit of this small and precious farm. Here we pour our beloved Tamboerskloof wines for family, friends, fans, foreigners and critics alike....

June 2024

The Kleinood Forest

By Melissa de VilliersFarm Stories

If you go down to the woods today... Introducing the most beautiful place on earth. The trees are coming into leaf Like something almost being said; The recent buds relax and spread, Their greenness is a kind of grief. Is...

May 2024

Summer Twenty Twenty-Three

By Melissa de VilliersFarm Stories

Summer, red violin, clear cloud, a buzz saw or cicada precedes you, the vaulted sky, smooth, shiny as an eye, and under your gaze, summer, fish from the infinite sky flattering elytron, lethargic bee belly, devilish sun, terrible and paternal...

February 2024

de herder = the shepherd

By Melissa de VilliersFarm Stories

A shepherd is the one who patiently walks the hills and valleys in search of the best grazing for his flock. The word shepherd derives from Old English sceaphierde / sceap or sheep, and hierde meaning herder. The dutch de herder...

November 2023

Rosé-Tinted Glasses

By Melissa de VilliersFarm Stories

Introducing: The Kleinood Tamboerskloof Katharien Syrah Rosé 2023 After each harvest, our beloved Tamboerskloof Katharien Rosé is the first wine to leave the Kleinood winery. But, don't be fooled: to make this rosey wine is a very involved process. It takes years...

November 2023

The Kleinood Tamboerskloof John Spicer Syrah 2009 Artist: Beezy Baily

Spring Twenty Twenty-Three

By Melissa de VilliersFarm Stories

On a May Saturday in 1853, Emily Dickens writes to her brother, Austin: “Today is very beautiful — just as bright, just as blue, just as green and as white, and as crimson, as the cherry trees full in...

September 2023

Greening Kleinood

By Melissa de VilliersFarm Stories

With love, from Kleinood

August 2023

The de Boerin Way

By Melissa de VilliersGoodly Things

The image, by Vincent van Gogh, representing de Boerin, is not of a successful and enterprising woman, but that of an unassuming peasant woman working the land, alone against a stark landscape - a humble being quietly going about her daily...

July 2023

Kleinood Tamboerskloof John Spicer Syrah artwork by Katharien de Villiers

Winter Twenty Twenty-Three

By Melissa de VilliersFarm Stories

"I think that you will all agree that we are living in most interesting times. I never remember myself a time in which our history was so full, in which day by day brought us new objects of interest, and,...

June 2023

The Calico Rail by de Boerin

By Melissa de VilliersGoodly 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

Melissa de Villiers

The Tasting Room on Kleinood Farm

The Kleinood Forest

Summer Twenty Twenty-Three

de herder = the shepherd

Rosé-Tinted Glasses

Spring Twenty Twenty-Three

Greening Kleinood

The de Boerin Way

Winter Twenty Twenty-Three

The Calico Rail by de Boerin

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