The Winery Groote Kaap of Western Cape

Winery Groote Kaap
The winery offers 3 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.7.
It is ranked in the top 2359 of the estates of Western Cape.
It is located in Western Cape

The Winery Groote Kaap is one of the best wineries to follow in Western Cape.. It offers 3 wines for sale in of Western Cape to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Groote Kaap wines

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

The top red wines of Winery Groote Kaap

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Groote Kaap

How Winery Groote Kaap wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or poultry such as recipes of beef in white wine, lamb tagine with apricots or honey chicken salad.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Groote Kaap

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

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Groote Kaap

  • 2016With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2009With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2006With an average score of 3.80/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Winery Groote Kaap.

  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Pinotage

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 white wines of Winery Groote Kaap

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Groote Kaap

How Winery Groote Kaap wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or spicy food such as recipes of english breakfast, salmon and goat cheese quiche or chicken with green olives.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Groote Kaap

On the nose the white wine of Winery Groote Kaap. often reveals types of flavors of earth, tree fruit or citrus fruit and sometimes also flavors of tropical fruit.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Groote Kaap

  • 2017With an average score of 4.10/5
  • 2012With an average score of 3.40/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.10/5

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Winery Groote Kaap.

  • Viognier

Discover the grape variety: Viognier

White Viognier is a grape variety that originated in France (Rhone Valley). 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 grapes of small size. White Viognier can be found in many vineyards: South West, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Rhone Valley, Burgundy, Jura, Champagne, Savoie & Bugey, Provence & Corsica, Loire Valley, Beaujolais.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Groote Kaap

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 Groote Kaap.

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 Groote Kaap and wines from the region

Couple arrested in Croatia over €1.6m wine heist

A man and woman carried out the ‘meticulously planned’ theft at the Atrio hotel and restaurant in western Spain back in October. They made off with a bottle of 1806 Château D’Yquem and a large haul of Domaine de la Romanée Conti after breaking into Atrio’s famous cellar. That sparked a nine-month international manhunt. Police in Spain teamed up with Interpol and Europol, plus authorities in Romania and the Netherlands, to track a pair of suspects down. They eventually swooped on a 29-year-old Me ...

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 ...

The word of the wine: Secondary aromas

Aromas resulting from the fermentation and maturation of the wine before bottling. The aging in barrels modifies considerably the texture and the flavours of the wine.