How to cook with aubergine

April 8th, 2020


This is a vegetable you either love or loathe. If the latter, it could be that your distaste originated in poor preparation. The aubergine ...

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Special Collections Garden Tours

February 17th, 2020






To keep our garden in tip-top shape all year round requires many skilled hands, sharp secateurs and laborious hours of ...

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All aboard the Franschhoek Wine Tram

January 29th, 2020


Franschhoek
has been offering good wine, scrumptious food and breathtaking vineyard views
for over 300 years – it’s no wonder the region is considered ...

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Must-do holiday activities for families in and around Cape Town

December 9th, 2019


The Mother City is the place if you’re looking for family-friendly things to do over the festive season. While there’s no shortage of guides and ...

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Babylonstoren is growing nuts!

August 1st, 2019

The alluring smell of freshly roasted almonds and macadamia nuts have lured many farm visitors to our newly established Lekker Room. Here, our love for all things fresh, raw and organic is celebrated daily with a tasteful variety of nuts, brittles, rusks and granolas.

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Introducing our new white blend, Candide 2018

August 29th, 2018

What is the secret to happiness? If you were to ask Candide, the protagonist in Voltaire’s satire by the same name, it is that we ‘must cultivate our own garden’.

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Chicken Out

May 15th, 2018

Free-roaming chickens can often be spotted scratching in the garden and plucking pesky bugs off our farm produce. We have five different types of chicken here at Babylonstoren – Boschvelders and Potch Koekoeks in the garden, as well as the Leghorns, Araucanas and Lohmann Browns that are looked after by farmer Christo.

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Oh boy, he’s here!

December 1st, 2017

Trompie and his svelte young wife Racheltjie are proud to announce the arrival of their firstborn, a dashing baby jack. The newest member of the family was born early yesterday morning in perfect health, with four hooves and two floppy ears.

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Mourvèdre Rosé – Love at First Sip

August 26th, 2016

As spring unfolds, budding blooms and warmer weather invite us to soak up a new season. And as we trade hearty stews for crisp salads, we fill our glasses with wine of a lighter complexion. Babylonstoren Mourvèdre Rosé, with a rosy blush and tantalizing taste, is our spring muse.

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ROCKIN’ THE CAPE

May 25th, 2016

We've always been strong on botany, weak on stones. Now we're adding the palaeontological landscape of four regions of the Cape. Our team is reworking blocks in the indigenous fragrance garden with soil, rocks, and numerous plant species. We're creating small-scale versions of the Hantam, Robertson Karoo, Simonsberg and Eastern Cape.

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