The Tradouw Highlands hosts an extensive range of businesses of which Tradouw Fruit forms the backbone. The high altitude, low temperatures and fertile soils make the area ideal for the production of a variety of deciduous fruits and grapes.

The production and packing of fruit led to the development of Oaklands Fruit Juices for the processing of juice-grade fruit into a cloudy apple and pear juice.

Conveniently situated on R62, the Akkerboom Trading Post sells our fresh produce, wine and curios. The Trading Post offers a restaurant which serves farm style local food.

Living in one of the most picturesque areas in South Africa we wanted to share the beauty with the rest of the world by renovating old workers' houses into luxury self catering cottages. Akkerboom Country Cottages and Killarney Trout consist of 5 cottages. Killarney Trout offers brown and rainbow trout fishing in 3 still water dams.
To preserve the quality of the grapes during the harvest process, we harvest our grapes at different levels of ripeness during the early hours of the morning to ensure we avoid the warm conditions in the mid morning.

Small crates are used to reduce breaking the skins and oxidation. The grapes are carefully transported to our cellars where Lourens van der Westhuizen and his team await the harvest with great anticipation.

Our wine making philosophy is to allow the terroir of the unique site to be fully reflected in the wines. We blend components harvested at different stages of ripeness to produce what we believe is a wine that we can be proud of!