The Winery Bryan MacRobert of Swartland of Western Cape

Winery Bryan MacRobert - Abbotsdale Syrah
The winery offers 12 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.7.
It is ranked in the top 162 of the estates of Western Cape.
It is located in Swartland in the region of Western Cape

The Winery Bryan MacRobert is one of the best wineries to follow in Swartland.. It offers 12 wines for sale in of Swartland to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Bryan MacRobert wines

Looking for the best Winery Bryan MacRobert wines in Swartland among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Bryan MacRobert 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 Bryan MacRobert wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Winery Bryan MacRobert

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Bryan MacRobert

How Winery Bryan MacRobert wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of seven o'clock leg of lamb, lamb tagine with prunes and almonds or rabbit with white wine and mushrooms.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Bryan MacRobert

On the nose the red wine of Winery Bryan MacRobert. often reveals types of flavors of pepper, spices or red fruit and sometimes also flavors of black fruit, non oak or earth. In the mouth the red wine of Winery Bryan MacRobert. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Bryan MacRobert

  • 2012With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.72/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.61/5
  • 2011With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.23/5

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

  • Shiraz/Syrah
  • Mourvedre
  • Cinsault
  • Carignan
  • Pinotage

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 white wines of Winery Bryan MacRobert

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Bryan MacRobert

How Winery Bryan MacRobert wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of shellfish, spicy food or lean fish such as recipes of cuttlefish a la plancha, monkfish armorican style or ceviche of cod (mexico).

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Bryan MacRobert

On the nose the white wine of Winery Bryan MacRobert. often reveals types of flavors of non oak, earth or microbio and sometimes also flavors of oak, tree fruit or citrus fruit. In the mouth the white wine of Winery Bryan MacRobert. is a with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Bryan MacRobert

  • 2012With an average score of 4.10/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.93/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.88/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.70/5

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

  • Chenin Blanc

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.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Bryan MacRobert

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 Bryan MacRobert.

Discover the grape variety: Carignan

Mainly cultivated in the Languedoc region, carignan originates from Spain. Because of its very resistant branches, it is often called hardwood. Its bunches are quite large. They are compact and winged with a lignified stalk. The berries are spherical in shape and take on a bluish-black colour. Carignan has a total of 25 approved clones, the best known of which are 274, 65 and 9. The carignan buds at the beginning of June and is protected from spring frosts. It does not reach maturity until the third period. Also, this grape variety needs warmth and sunshine. It appreciates dry and not very fertile soils. Carignan vines can live for more than 100 years. Those that are more than 30 years old produce a better wine. This wine is well coloured. It is generous and powerful at the same time. Pepper, cherry, blackberry, banana, raspberry, almond, prune and violet are some of the aromas that this grape variety gives off.

News about Winery Bryan MacRobert and wines from the region

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 ...

Cape Winemakers Guild 2022 auction: all the lots to bid on

The 38th annual Cape Winemakers Guild Auction is back on home soil in South Africa this year. Auction house Strauss & Co will host the sale, sponsored by Nedbank, live and online from 5pm to 8pm on Friday 30 September and 9am to 3pm on Saturday 1 October. Bidders can attend the auction in person at the Lord Charles Hotel in Somerset West, bid by telephone, or online. They can also leave a commission bid in advance of the sale. Bonhams auction house held the auction in London in 2020 and 2021 ...

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 ...

The word of the wine: Interknot

Botanical term for the interval between two nodes or between two leaf insertions on a branch (see merithallus).