The Winery Jakkalskloof of Stellenbosch of Western Cape

Winery Jakkalskloof - Darling Cabernet Sauvignon
The winery offers 5 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.7.
It is ranked in the top 2534 of the estates of Western Cape.
It is located in Stellenbosch in the region of Western Cape

The Winery Jakkalskloof is one of the best wineries to follow in Stellenbosch.. It offers 5 wines for sale in of Stellenbosch to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Jakkalskloof wines

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

The top red wines of Winery Jakkalskloof

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Jakkalskloof

How Winery Jakkalskloof wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or poultry such as recipes of beef pot au feu (grandma's style), lamb tagine with figs or mushroom, bacon and gruyere quiche.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Jakkalskloof

On the nose the red wine of Winery Jakkalskloof. often reveals types of flavors of non oak, earth or oak and sometimes also flavors of black fruit.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Jakkalskloof

  • 2013With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2010With an average score of 3.50/5

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

  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Pinotage

Discovering the wine region of Stellenbosch

The wine region of Stellenbosch is located in the region of Coastal Region of Western Cape of South Africa. We currently count 582 estates and châteaux in the of Stellenbosch, producing 3443 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Stellenbosch go well with generally quite well with dishes .

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Jakkalskloof

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

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 Jakkalskloof 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 ...

Jackson Family Wines buys first vineyard in Washington’s Walla Walla Valley

The family-owned company made its first foray into Washington State last year when it began buying grapes from select vineyards throughout the Walla Walla Valley. The winemaking team was impressed by the quality coming out of the region, and it has now pounced on the opportunity to acquire land there. It snapped up 61 acres of an existing 117-acre property in Mill Creek. A local firm called Abeja, founded by Ken and Ginger Roberts, bought the land back in 2000 in a bid to grow world-class Cabern ...

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: Thinning

Also known as green harvesting, the practice of removing excess bunches of grapes from certain vines, usually in July, but sometimes later. This is often necessary, but not always a good thing, as the remaining bunches often gain weight.