Farm Stories

While summer roses all their glory yield To crown the votary of love and joy, Misfortune’s victim hails, with many a sigh, Thee, scarlet Poppy of the pathless field, Gaudy, yet wild and lone; no leaf to shield Thy flaccid...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

With love, from Kleinood

"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,...

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 to ripeness,...