Winery Overgaauw - Cape Vintage

Winery OvergaauwCape Vintage

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(Average of the reviews for all vintages combined and from several consumer review sources)
Tasters consider this wine to be one of the best in the region.
The Cape Vintage of Winery Overgaauw is a natural sweet wine from the region of Stellenbosch of Western Cape.
This wine is a blend of 2 varietals which are the Tinta Barroca and the Touriga nacional.
This wine generally goes well with beef and mature and hard cheese.

Wine flavors and olphactive analysis

On the nose the Cape Vintage of Winery Overgaauw in the region of Western Cape often reveals types of flavors of non oak, earth or microbio and sometimes also flavors of oak, spices or red fruit.

Details and technical informations about Winery Overgaauw's Cape Vintage.

Region/Great wine region
Great wine region
Style of wine
Alcohol
19°
Allergens
Contains sulfites

Discover the grape variety: Tinta Barroca

Most certainly Portuguese, more precisely in the Douro region where it is very present. It can be found in Spain, Portugal, South Africa, ... almost unknown in France, registered in the Official Catalogue of A2 list varieties.

Last vintages of this wine

Cape Vintage - 1998
In the top 100 of of Stellenbosch wines
Average rating: 4.211110
Cape Vintage - 1995
In the top 100 of of Stellenbosch wines
Average rating: 3.61110.50
Cape Vintage - 1994
In the top 100 of of Stellenbosch wines
Average rating: 4.111110
Cape Vintage - 1993
In the top 100 of of Stellenbosch wines
Average rating: 4.311110
Cape Vintage - 1992
In the top 100 of of Stellenbosch wines
Average rating: 4.111110

The best vintages of Cape Vintage from Winery Overgaauw are 1993, 1998, 1994, 1992 and 1995.

Informations about the Winery Overgaauw

The winery offers 29 different wines.
Its wines get an average rating of 3.9.
It is in the top 5 of the best estates in the region
It is located in Stellenbosch in the region of Western Cape

The Winery Overgaauw is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 28 wines for sale in the of Stellenbosch to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top wine Western Cape
In the top 2000 of of South Africa wines
In the top 650 of of Stellenbosch wines
In the top 950 of natural sweet wines
In the top 65000 wines of the world

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 .


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.

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The word of the wine: Chair

Characteristic of a wine that gives an impression of fullness and density in the mouth, without any roughness.

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