The Winery Luddite of Western Cape

Winery Luddite
The winery offers 20 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 4.2.
It is ranked in the top 95 of the estates of Western Cape.
It is located in Western Cape

The Winery Luddite is one of the world's great estates. It offers 20 wines for sale in of Western Cape to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Luddite wines

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

The top white wines of Winery Luddite

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Luddite

How Winery Luddite wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, game (deer, venison) or rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) such as recipes of potato and bacon omelette, alice's rabbit or cucumber pie.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Luddite

On the nose the white wine of Winery Luddite. often reveals types of flavors of pineapple, microbio or honey and sometimes also flavors of cedar, straw or oil. In the mouth the white wine of Winery Luddite. is a with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Luddite

  • 2013With an average score of 4.30/5
  • 2015With an average score of 4.24/5
  • 2019With an average score of 4.20/5
  • 2014With an average score of 4.13/5
  • 2016With an average score of 4.04/5
  • 2017With an average score of 4.02/5

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

  • Chenin Blanc
  • Chardonnay
  • Viognier
  • Fumé Blanc

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 Luddite

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Luddite

How Winery Luddite wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or spicy food such as recipes of beef pot-au-feu, lamb tagine with prunes or chicken risotto with curry.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Luddite

On the nose the red wine of Winery Luddite. often reveals types of flavors of cherry, oak or cinnamon and sometimes also flavors of dark fruit, cedar or non oak. In the mouth the red wine of Winery Luddite. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Luddite

  • 2017With an average score of 4.60/5
  • 2002With an average score of 4.50/5
  • 2014With an average score of 4.37/5
  • 2013With an average score of 4.36/5
  • 2010With an average score of 4.31/5
  • 2005With an average score of 4.30/5

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

  • Shiraz/Syrah
  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Mourvedre

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 Luddite

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 Luddite.

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 Luddite 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 ...

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 ...

Ukraine winery’s mission to deliver bottles to DWWA

Amid the devastation and turmoil since Russia’s invasion on 24 February, Beykush winery on southern Ukraine’s Black Sea Coast has been among those attempting to continue operations as much as possible. Last week, Beykush began transporting thousands of wines to western Ukraine in order to protect them for possible export to other markets, winery director Svetlana Tsybak told Decanter. ‘Yesterday we sent three palettes, about 1,200 bottles, and today the same quantity,’ she said. She also s ...

The word of the wine: Bold

A wine with a smooth texture reminiscent of fats.