The Winery Growers' Ark of Western Cape

Winery Growers' Ark - Red Blend
The winery offers 2 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.4.
It is currently not ranked among the best domains of Western Cape.
It is located in Western Cape

The Winery Growers' Ark is one of the best wineries to follow in Western Cape.. It offers 2 wines for sale in of Western Cape to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Growers' Ark wines

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

The top red wines of Winery Growers' Ark

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Growers' Ark

How Winery Growers' Ark wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or pork such as recipes of provencal stew, lamb mice confit and melting carrots or baked dumplings.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Growers' Ark

  • 2013With an average score of 3.40/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Winery Growers' Ark.

  • Pinotage
  • Shiraz/Syrah
  • Cabernet Franc

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 Growers' Ark

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Growers' Ark

How Winery Growers' Ark wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of veal, pork or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of roast veal with mustard cream, leeks with ham and béchamel sauce or alice's rabbit.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Growers' Ark

  • 2013With an average score of 3.40/5

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Winery Growers' Ark.

  • Chenin Blanc
  • Viognier
  • Pinot Grigio

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 Growers' Ark

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 Growers' Ark.

Discover the grape variety: Chenin blanc

It most certainly originates from the Anjou region and is registered in the official catalogue of wine grape varieties on the A1 list. It can also be found in South Africa, Australia, Argentina, Chile, the United States (California), New Zealand, etc. It is said to be a descendant of Savagnin and to have sauvignonasse as its second parent (Jean-Michel Boursiquot 2019). On the other hand, Chenin blanc is the half-brother of verdelho and sauvignon blanc and is the father of colombard.

News about Winery Growers' Ark and wines from the region

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The word of the wine: Wiring

Action of periodically filling barrels containing wine, in order to offset evaporation and maintain a maximum level. The topping up allows to avoid the phenomenon of oxidation.