The Winery Charles Fox of Elgin of Western Cape

Winery Charles Fox - Blanc de Blancs Brut
The winery offers 6 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 4.1.
It is ranked in the top 11 of the estates of Western Cape.
It is located in Elgin in the region of Western Cape

The Winery Charles Fox is one of the world's great estates. It offers 6 wines for sale in of Elgin to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Charles Fox wines

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

The top sparkling wines of Winery Charles Fox

Food and wine pairings with a sparkling wine of Winery Charles Fox

How Winery Charles Fox wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or vegetarian such as recipes of sauté of veal with olives (corsica), skate wing with caper butter or goat cheese and bacon quiche.

Organoleptic analysis of sparkling wines of Winery Charles Fox

On the nose the sparkling wine of Winery Charles Fox. often reveals types of flavors of non oak, earth or microbio and sometimes also flavors of oak, tree fruit or citrus fruit.

The best vintages in the sparkling wines of Winery Charles Fox

  • 2010With an average score of 4.30/5
  • 2011With an average score of 4.23/5
  • 2007With an average score of 4.14/5
  • 2012With an average score of 4.12/5
  • 2013With an average score of 4.11/5
  • 2018With an average score of 4.10/5

The grape varieties most used in the sparkling wines of Winery Charles Fox.

  • Chardonnay
  • Pinot Noir
  • Pinot Meunier

Discovering the wine region of Elgin

The wine region of Elgin is located in the region of Cape South Coast of Western Cape of South Africa. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Paul Cluver or the Domaine Matthew Van Heerden produce mainly wines white, red and pink. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Elgin are Pinot noir, Chardonnay and Merlot, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Elgin often reveals types of flavors of cream, stone fruit or cheese and sometimes also flavors of quince, beeswax or citrus zest.

In the mouth of Elgin is a powerful with a nice freshness. We currently count 75 estates and châteaux in the of Elgin, producing 336 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Elgin go well with generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or vegetarian.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Charles Fox

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

Discover the grape variety: Chardonnay

The white Chardonnay is a grape variety that originated in France (Burgundy). 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 small bunches, and small grapes. White Chardonnay can be found in many vineyards: South West, Burgundy, Jura, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Beaujolais, Savoie & Bugey, Loire Valley, Champagne, Rhone Valley, Armagnac, Lorraine, Alsace, Provence & Corsica.

News about Winery Charles Fox and wines from the region

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 ...

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 ...

Warmer climate to boost UK wine production, says study

Higher growing season temperatures over the next 20 years are likely to further increase the UK’s potential for wine production, according to new modelling on ‘near-term’ climate change impact on the sector. Yet wineries also need flexibility to adapt to challenges, said the study, published in the Oeno One journal and part of a wider project on climate resilience in UK wine. Conditions seen in the excellent 2018 vintage are set to become more common in several areas, including East ...

The word of the wine: Demi-sec

Champagne with between 33 and 50 grams of sugar (see dosage liqueur).