The Winery Maclear's Beacon of Western Cape

Winery Maclear's Beacon
The winery offers 2 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 2.8.
It is currently not ranked among the best domains of Western Cape.
It is located in Western Cape

The Winery Maclear's Beacon 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 Maclear's Beacon wines

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

The top red wines of Winery Maclear's Beacon

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Maclear's Beacon

How Winery Maclear's Beacon wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or poultry such as recipes of spaghetti squash bolognese style, tunisian haja or chicken massala.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Maclear's Beacon

  • 2012With an average score of 3.00/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Winery Maclear's Beacon.

  • Shiraz/Syrah
  • Cabernet Sauvignon

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.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Maclear's Beacon

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Discover the grape variety: Dattier de Beyrouth

Of natural origin, it was initially multiplied in the region of Cavaillon in Vaucluse. It is also present in many countries where the climate allows the grapes to ripen well. It is registered in the Official Catalogue of table grape varieties, list A1. Finally, the Beirut Date Tree has long been used as a progenitor for new varieties of table grapes, with Danuta being a good example.

News about Winery Maclear's Beacon and wines from the region

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 ...

Canada’s Okanagan Valley approves six new sub-appellations

Canada’s western province of British Columbia (BC), has approved six new sub-appellations for its most famous wine-growing region of Okanagan Valley. The Okanagan Valley is BC’s largest appellation – called Geographical Indications (GIs) in Canada. And from a standing start in 2015, it now has 11 sub-GIs following the recent ratification. The six new sub-GIs are: Summerland Valleys, Summerland Lakefront, Summerland Bench, East Kelowna Slopes, South Kelowna Slopes and Lake Country. They are now l ...

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 ...

The word of the wine: Varietal wine

Name given to the local wine (IGP), produced from a single grape variety that gives the wine its characteristics of structure and aroma. The Languedoc is the leading producer of this type of wine, from most of the major French grape varieties.