The Winery Antebellum of Swartland of Western Cape

Winery Antebellum - Chenin Blanc
The winery offers 8 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.3.
It is ranked in the top 450 of the estates of Western Cape.
It is located in Swartland in the region of Western Cape

The Winery Antebellum is one of the best wineries to follow in Swartland.. It offers 8 wines for sale in of Swartland to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Antebellum wines

Looking for the best Winery Antebellum wines in Swartland among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Antebellum wines. Also find some food and wine pairings that may be suitable with the wines from this area. Learn more about the region and the Winery Antebellum wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top white wines of Winery Antebellum

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Antebellum

How Winery Antebellum wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of shellfish, spicy food or lean fish such as recipes of quenelles in nantua sauce, indian style coral lentils or fideuà (spain).

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Antebellum

On the nose the white wine of Winery Antebellum. often reveals types of flavors of earth, vegetal or oak and sometimes also flavors of tree fruit, citrus fruit or tropical fruit.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Antebellum

  • 2015With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 2012With an average score of 3.40/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.30/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.20/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.10/5

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Winery Antebellum.

  • Chenin Blanc
  • Sémillon

Discovering the wine region of Swartland

The wine region of Swartland is located in the region of Coastal Region of Western Cape of South Africa. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Sadie Family or the Domaine Sadie Family produce mainly wines red, white and pink. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Swartland are Chenin blanc, Mourvèdre and Pinotage, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Swartland often reveals types of flavors of cherry, marmalade or cantaloupe and sometimes also flavors of chard, poire nashi or red cherry.

In the mouth of Swartland is a powerful with a nice freshness. We currently count 192 estates and châteaux in the of Swartland, producing 832 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Swartland go well with generally quite well with dishes of pork, game (deer, venison) or rich fish (salmon, tuna etc).

The top red wines of Winery Antebellum

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Antebellum

How Winery Antebellum wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or spicy food such as recipes of monkfish tail with white butter, lamb chops with figs and honey or marinated tacaud fillets.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Antebellum

On the nose the red wine of Winery Antebellum. often reveals types of flavors of spices, black fruit or earth and sometimes also flavors of oak, red fruit.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Antebellum

  • 2016With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2012With an average score of 3.20/5
  • 2014With an average score of 2.90/5
  • 2013With an average score of 2.70/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Winery Antebellum.

  • Shiraz/Syrah
  • Mourvedre
  • Cinsaut

Discover the grape variety: Mourvèdre

Mourvèdre noir is a grape variety originating from Spain. It produces a variety of grape specially used for wine making. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. This variety of grape is characterized by medium to large bunches, and grapes of medium size. Mourvèdre noir can be found in several vineyards: South-West, Cognac, Bordeaux, Provence & Corsica, Rhône valley, Languedoc & Roussillon, Loire valley, Savoie & Bugey, Beaujolais.

The top pink wines of Winery Antebellum

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Winery Antebellum

How Winery Antebellum wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of veal, pork or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of veal tagine with peas, italian pasta or pheasant in a casserole with white wine.

Organoleptic analysis of pink wines of Winery Antebellum

On the nose the pink wine of Winery Antebellum. often reveals types of flavors of red fruit.

The best vintages in the pink wines of Winery Antebellum

  • 2016With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.38/5

The grape varieties most used in the pink wines of Winery Antebellum.

  • Pinot Noir
  • Cinsault
  • Pinotage

The word of the wine: Phylloxera

Aphid that came from America and ravaged European vineyards at the end of the 19th century. It lives on the roots of the vine, from which it pumps the sap. The only vines capable of resisting it had to be imported from the United States, and then grafted onto their root system the wood of traditional French grape varieties. Today, grafted vines are always planted.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Antebellum

Planning a wine route in the of Swartland? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Winery Antebellum.

Discover the grape variety: Pinotage

An intraspecific cross between pinot noir and cinsaut called hermitage, obtained in South Africa in 1925 by Professor Abraham Izak Perold. Since then, it has been propagated in Africa, New Zealand, Australia, the United States (California), Canada, Brazil, Israel, etc. In France, it is practically unknown, although it is registered in the Official Catalogue of Vine Varieties on the A1 list. - Synonymy: none to date (for all the synonyms of the varieties, click here!).

News about Winery Antebellum and wines from the region

Palladius and Columella verticals: Eben Sadie’s Swartland flagships

The rapid rise of South Africa’s Swartland wine region over the past 20 years has been thrilling to watch. And arguably the most influential winemaker during this renaissance has – and continues to be – Eben Sadie. Sadie was in London recently for a vertical tasting of his flagship wines, the red blend Columella and white blend Palladius. He explained to a rapt audience of critics, buyers and sommeliers how his approach to winemaking has changed over the years, and revealed how he’s preparing fo ...

Bordeaux ‘Act for Change’ symposium

The focus of the symposium, unsurprisingly, was on the challenges posed by climate change. As if to illustrate the immediacy of the threat, the symposium took place during a heatwave, with temperatures of over 40°C  in Bordeaux and extreme weather events recorded across the coountry: parts of southwest France saw violent storms and winds of 112kph on the evening of 20 June, while vineyards across the Médoc and St-Emilion were damaged by hailstones ‘the size of golfballs’. As Olivier Bernard of D ...

Platinum: The 97 point wines of DWWA 2022

The largest-ever year for entries, an incredible 18,244 wines were judged at the 2022 Decanter World Wine Awards – with just 163 wines awarded a Platinum medal. ‘Winning a Platinum medal is something really exceptional’ said Decanter World Wine Awards Co-Chair Sarah Jane Evans MW. ‘Platinum is like the stratospheric level’ she commented, ‘so it’s really saying to the winemaker: this is a great wine.’ Making up just 0.87% of the total wines tasted at the 2022 c ...

The word of the wine: Phylloxera

Aphid that came from America and ravaged European vineyards at the end of the 19th century. It lives on the roots of the vine, from which it pumps the sap. The only vines capable of resisting it had to be imported from the United States, and then grafted onto their root system the wood of traditional French grape varieties. Today, grafted vines are always planted.