You didn’t think we would leave you high and dry for Christmas, did you? Whole Berry has been sold out for a little over a month and during that time we have been through the full 5 stages of grief. At first, there was shock and denial – how could we be sold out? How did this happen?
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All good things come to an end, the saying goes, and sadly this is also the case when it comes to our wines. Springfield is an Estate, which means that all wines we release must be grown, made, bottled and labeled on our farm. This means we cannot buy in any grapes, and that the
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After what felt like the most gloriously warm weekend, driving around the farm this week it was indisputable that summer has officially arrived here on the farm. One can practically SEE the vineyard growing, with our vines positively bursting with new life. While last week we were fighting the threat of black frost on the farm,
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Felix is an Anatolian Shepherd that guards the Springboks on Springfield Estate. He is a celebrity of sorts as he was the first Anatolian puppy – as part of the Cheetah Outreach Programme – to be placed with game as a guard dog. Since 2005, Anatolian guard dogs have been placed on farms in cheetah
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The dawn of the 20th century was a momentous time for South Africa, and for the tiny town of Robertson as well, with lots of changes taking place in our little village. Most agriculture was concentrated on the mountain slopes, an area with a higher rainfall than the valley basin. At the time, the Breede
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