The Winery Bat's Rock of Olifants River of Western Cape

Winery Bat's Rock - Pinotage
The winery offers 2 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.4.
This estate is part of the Lutzville Vineyards.
It is ranked in the top 18 of the estates of Western Cape.
It is located in Olifants River in the region of Western Cape

The Winery Bat's Rock is one of the world's great estates. It offers 2 wines for sale in of Olifants River to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Bat's Rock wines

Looking for the best Winery Bat's Rock wines in Olifants River among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Bat's Rock 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 Bat's Rock wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Winery Bat's Rock

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Bat's Rock

How Winery Bat's Rock wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, game (deer, venison) or poultry such as recipes of beef tongue with pickle sauce, potjevlesch (northern france) or pasta carbonara.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Bat's Rock

  • 2011With an average score of 3.50/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.30/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Winery Bat's Rock.

  • Pinotage

Discovering the wine region of Olifants River

The wine region of Olifants River is located in the 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 Olifants River are Pinotage, Cabernet-Sauvignon and Chenin blanc, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Olifants River often reveals types of flavors of earth, lime or rosemary and sometimes also flavors of floral, dried fruit or rose water.

In the mouth of Olifants River is a powerful with a nice freshness. We currently count 19 estates and châteaux in the of Olifants River, producing 63 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Olifants River go well with generally quite well with dishes of shellfish, spicy food or lean fish.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Bat's Rock

Planning a wine route in the of Olifants River? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Winery Bat's Rock.

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 Bat's Rock and wines from the region

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The word of the wine: Length

Persistence in the mouth of a wine measured in caudalies.