Posts Tagged ‘Flagstone Winery’
Organic farming on Appelsdrift
Friday, August 27th, 2010
Bruce Jack, well known winemaker of Flagstone, told me me last week : “When I first saw Appelsdrift Farm in the mid 1990’s I knew it would be a brilliant vineyard farm. The grapes we grow are brilliant and are currently sold to Flagstone Winery, although my father is making a small amount of wine under “The Drift Farm” label as well - more of that to follow from him in due course if we don’t drink it all at Christmas!
What has surprised us is how well the vegetables and the olive trees grow.
While the farm is beautiful, nestled, as it is, into the granite slopes of the Akkedisberg, it is





