Winery Boplaas - Cape Vintage Reserve Port

Winery BoplaasCape Vintage Reserve Port

4.2
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(Average of the reviews for all vintages combined and from several consumer review sources)
Tasters consider this wine to be one of the best in the region.
The Cape Vintage Reserve Port of Winery Boplaas is a natural sweet wine from the region of Western Cape.
This wine is a blend of 3 varietals which are the Tinta Barroca, the Touriga franca and the Touriga nacional.
This wine generally goes well with beef and mature and hard cheese.

Wine flavors and olphactive analysis

On the nose the Cape Vintage Reserve Port of Winery Boplaas in the region of Western Cape often reveals types of flavors of non oak, earth or microbio and sometimes also flavors of oak, tree fruit or spices.

Food and wine pairings with Cape Vintage Reserve Port

Pairings that work perfectly with Cape Vintage Reserve Port

Original food and wine pairings with Cape Vintage Reserve Port

The Cape Vintage Reserve Port of Winery Boplaas matches generally quite well with dishes of beef or mature and hard cheese such as recipes of fricandeaux german style or ramen burger.

Details and technical informations about Winery Boplaas's Cape Vintage Reserve Port.

Region/Great wine region
Style of wine
Alcohol
18°
Allergens
Contains sulfites

Discover the grape variety: Tinta Barroca

Most certainly Portuguese, more precisely in the Douro region where it is very present. It can be found in Spain, Portugal, South Africa, ... almost unknown in France, registered in the Official Catalogue of A2 list varieties.

Last vintages of this wine

Cape Vintage Reserve Port - 2017
In the top 100 of of Western Cape wines
Average rating: 4.111110
Cape Vintage Reserve Port - 2016
In the top 100 of of Western Cape wines
Average rating: 4.211110
Cape Vintage Reserve Port - 2015
In the top 100 of of Western Cape wines
Average rating: 4.211110
Cape Vintage Reserve Port - 2014
In the top 100 of of Western Cape wines
Average rating: 3.61110.50
Cape Vintage Reserve Port - 2013
In the top 100 of of Western Cape wines
Average rating: 4.111110
Cape Vintage Reserve Port - 2012
In the top 100 of of Western Cape wines
Average rating: 4.411110
Cape Vintage Reserve Port - 2011
In the top 100 of of Western Cape wines
Average rating: 4.311110

The best vintages of Cape Vintage Reserve Port from Winery Boplaas are 2006, 2009, 2001, 2002 and 2012.

Informations about the Winery Boplaas

The winery offers 67 different wines.
Its wines get an average rating of 3.7.
It is in the top 3 of the best estates in the region
It is located in Western Cape

The Winery Boplaas is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 65 wines for sale in the of Western Cape to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top wine Western Cape
In the top 200 of of South Africa wines
In the top 200 of of Western Cape wines
In the top 200 of natural sweet wines
In the top 7500 wines of the world

The wine region of Western Cape

The Western Cape is home to the vast majority of the South African wine industry, and the country's two most famous wine regions, Stellenbosch and Paarl. The city of Cape Town serves as the epicenter of the Cape Winelands, a mountainous, biologically diverse area in the south-western corner of the African continent. A wide variety of wines are produced here. Wines from the Shiraz and Pinotage">Pinotage grape varieties can be fresh and juicy or Full-bodied and gutsy.

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The word of the wine: Animal

Generic smell of aromatic families reminiscent of fur, game, musk, civet, amber and sometimes unpleasant smells of wet hair. The old books on tasting give as an example of animal aroma the belly of hare.

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