The Winery Mother Rock is one of the world's great estates. It offers 20 wines for sale in of Swartland to come and discover on site or to buy online.
Looking for the best Winery Mother Rock wines in Swartland among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Mother Rock 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 Mother Rock wines with technical and enological descriptions.
How Winery Mother Rock 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 leeks with ham and béchamel sauce, my grandmother's rabbit stew or pasta salad with surimi.
On the nose the white wine of Winery Mother Rock. often reveals types of flavors of cherry, tobacco or forest floor and sometimes also flavors of strawberries, leather or pepper. In the mouth the white wine of Winery Mother Rock. is a with a nice freshness.
South African renaissance north of Cape Town: signature Chenin Blanc as king white (old bush vines) — full and mineral with notes of quince, honey, yellow fruits, toasted almond and a saline touch, noble texture and a refined finish. Signature Syrah as king red — spicy and fleshy with blackberry, raspberry, garrigue and pepper, fine tannins. Grenache and Cinsault complete it. Non-interventionist winemaking (whole bunch, old foudres).
Dry Mediterranean, granite and schist.
How Winery Mother Rock wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, spicy food or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of family potluck, traditional tunisian couscous or duck legs confit.
On the nose the red wine of Winery Mother Rock. often reveals types of flavors of spices, red fruit or black fruit and sometimes also flavors of non oak, earth or microbio. In the mouth the red wine of Winery Mother Rock. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.
Intensely coloured, structured reds with inky robe and firm tannins, with typical aromas of blackberry, black plum, roasted coffee, cocoa, banana and characteristic smoky notes. Made as powerful ageing reds and as more approachable fruity cuvées, sometimes as rosés. Absolute signature of South Africa (Stellenbosch, Swartland, Paarl). Cross of pinot noir × cinsault created in 1925 by Abraham Perold at Stellenbosch University.
How Winery Mother Rock wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of game (deer, venison) or poultry such as recipes of duck breast with foie gras sauce or tunisian tagine.
On the nose the sparkling wine of Winery Mother Rock. often reveals types of flavors of earth, microbio or tree fruit and sometimes also flavors of citrus fruit, tropical fruit.
Action consisting of draining the wine from a vat of red wine (free-run wine), the marc then being pressed to obtain the press wine.
How Winery Mother Rock wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef or mature and hard cheese such as recipes of beef with panang curry (red curry) or savoy tomme and spinach pie.
On the nose the pink wine of Winery Mother Rock. often reveals types of flavors of earth, oak or tree fruit and sometimes also flavors of spices, citrus fruit or red fruit.
Powerful, deep reds with firm tannins and dense texture, showing aromas of blackberry, leather, garrigue, black pepper, liquorice and animal notes (game, forest floor) with age. Star of Bandol AOC as a single variety and pillar of Châteauneuf-du-Pape, Gigondas and Costières blends. Also in GSM in Languedoc and Australia. A late-ripening variety of Spanish origin (Mataró/Monastrell).
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Chameleon whites with taut acidity, ranging from mineral dry (Savennières, Vouvray sec) to off-dry and medium-sweet (Vouvray, Montlouis), sumptuous botrytised sweet (Quarts-de-Chaume, Bonnezeaux, Coteaux du Layon) and brilliant sparkling (Crémant de Loire, Vouvray brut). Aromas of quince, apple, honey, white flowers, beeswax and flint. An Anjou variety, also star of South Africa's Western Cape.
