***A quick note on the quality of the audio, we are in lockdown at the moment in South Africa and we are relying on the internet to record these podcasts, and they don’t always behave. We have done what we can to make it listenable as possible.***
Kalmoesfontein: vines, vermouth, parrots, rooibos, agave and Abruzzo with Adi Badenhorst
Today on the podcast we have Adi Badenhorst, one of the Swartland Revolutionaries –he is the main force and winemaker behind Badenhorst Family Vineyards where they make some fantastic wine.
But I didn’t really want to talk about the wine per se on this episode with Adi. Which is a bit strange, given this is a wine podcast I understand. I wanted to talk to Adi about Kalmoesfontein, the farm he lives and works on and all the “other” projects he is undertaking on the property.
Adi is an extremely good-natured person, he will laugh at your jokes just as hard as he laughs at his own. He cares deeply about people and will, if given the time and permission, seek to understand the person he is talking to beyond the usual social graces. But there is an enigmatic side to Adi, underneath the exterior, which on first impression can seem very spontaneous and even reckless, and at the very least, disorganised lies a very driven, passionate and focussed human being.
He’s very thoughtful and is constantly requesting other’s opinions, especially when they don’t align with his.
He is certainly one of the people I most like talking to – he is, as they say, one of the good ones.
I give you Adi Badenhorst.
