The Winery Fat Barrel of Western Cape

Winery Fat Barrel - Barrelman's Select Sauvignon Blanc
The winery offers 19 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.5.
This estate is part of the Fat Barrel.
It is ranked in the top 3445 of the estates of Western Cape.
It is located in Western Cape

The Winery Fat Barrel is one of the best wineries to follow in Western Cape.. It offers 19 wines for sale in of Western Cape to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Fat Barrel wines

Looking for the best Winery Fat Barrel wines in Western Cape among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Fat Barrel 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 Fat Barrel wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top white wines of Winery Fat Barrel

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Fat Barrel

How Winery Fat Barrel wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of shellfish, vegetarian or goat cheese such as recipes of shrimp in coconut milk, zucchini and goat cheese quiche or lasagna with zucchini, goat cheese and chicken.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Fat Barrel

On the nose the white wine of Winery Fat Barrel. often reveals types of flavors of tropical fruit, oak or tree fruit and sometimes also flavors of earth, vegetal or citrus fruit. In the mouth the white wine of Winery Fat Barrel. is a with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Fat Barrel

  • 2020With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2019With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.59/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.42/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.39/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.38/5

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

  • Sauvignon Blanc
  • Chardonnay

Discovering 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.

The Western Cape's Elegant, ageworthy Cabernet Sauvignon wines and Bordeaux Blends were at the vanguard as exports recommenced in the mid-1990s, while Burgundy-style Pinot Noir and Chardonnay from Walker Bay are gaining global acclaim, and cool-climate style Sauvignon Blanc from Darling and Overberg is rivaling that made in any other New World country. The Western Cape's wine regions stretch 300 kilomers (185 miles) from Cape Town to the Mouth of the Olifants River in the North, and 360km (220 miles) to Mossel Bay in the east. Areas under Vine are rarely more than 160km (100 miles) from the coast. Further inland, the influence of the semi-arid Great Karoo Desert takes over.

The climate can be cool and rainy (as in Cape Point and Walker Bay) but is more often than not Mediterranean in nature. The Western Cape is littered with spectacular mountain ranges that form the Cape Fold belt. These are extremely important for viticulture across the whole region, contributing soils and mesoclimates ideal for the production of premium wines. Of particular importance are the Boland Mountains, which form the eastern border of the Coastal Region, and the Langeberg range, which separates the Breede River Valley from the Klein Karoo semi-desert.

The top red wines of Winery Fat Barrel

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Fat Barrel

How Winery Fat Barrel wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of marinated shrimp skewers with garlic, kapama of lamb (traditional bosnian dish) or my grandmother's rabbit stew.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Fat Barrel

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

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Fat Barrel

  • 2017With an average score of 3.74/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.62/5
  • 2011With an average score of 3.57/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.54/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.52/5
  • 2019With an average score of 3.50/5

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

  • Merlot
  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Shiraz/Syrah
  • Cabernet Franc
  • Pinotage
  • Petit Verdot

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!).

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Fat Barrel

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

Discover the grape variety: Merlot

Merlot noir is a grape variety that originated in France (Bordeaux). 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 to medium sized bunches, and medium sized grapes. Merlot noir can be found in many vineyards: South West, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Loire Valley, Armagnac, Burgundy, Jura, Champagne, Rhone Valley, Beaujolais, Provence & Corsica, Savoie & Bugey.

News about Winery Fat Barrel and wines from the region

Decanter’s Regional Editors pick out their top wines for Decanter Fine Wine Encounter NYC

In the first part of this series, see the wines that the Decanter editorial team is most excited about tasting at the Decanter Fine Wine Encounter NYC on Saturday 18th June 2022. Amy Wislocki – Decanter Magazine Editor Cape Landing Blackwood Cabernet Sauvignon, Margaret River 2019 At the end of every year at Decanter, we organise a ‘Wines of the Year‘ tasting. We ask our key contributors and editorial staff to pick out the wines that most impressed them during the year just gon ...

Long Read: Wine had a past with sailboats. Does it have a future too?

In 2007, Frenchman Frédéric Albert founded the Compagnie de Transport Maritime à la Voile (CTMV) with the goal of decarbonising the wine industry. The firm managed to sail its 50m-vessel four times from France to Ireland, England and Canada, before going into liquidation as a consequence of the 2008 economic crisis. Despite the failure, Albert’s pioneering project was a sign for things to come. In 2013, Le Havre-based TransOceanic Wind Transport (TOWT) followed in CTMV’s footsteps sailing some 3 ...

Château Lassègue names seventh-generation vigneron Nicolas Seillan as its new winemaker

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The word of the wine: Destemming

Operation consisting in eliminating the vegetal part of the bunch supporting the berries, its maceration with the must giving a herbaceous taste to the wine.