The Winery Papegaai is one of the world's great estates. It offers 3 wines for sale in of Swartland to come and discover on site or to buy online.
Looking for the best Winery Papegaai wines in Swartland among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Papegaai 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 Papegaai wines with technical and enological descriptions.
How Winery Papegaai wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of pork chops with potatoes, lamb tagine with preserved lemons and onion compote with... or rabbit terrine in the style of a grandmother (pas de calais).
On the nose the red wine of Winery Papegaai. often reveals types of flavors of cream, cherry or oaky and sometimes also flavors of smoke, earthy or blackberry.
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 Papegaai 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 braised (green) cabbage, rabbit with mustard in foil or smoked salmon pasta gratin.
On the nose the white wine of Winery Papegaai. often reveals types of flavors of non oak, earth or microbio and sometimes also flavors of vegetal, oak or tree fruit.
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.
Planning a wine route in the of Swartland? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Winery Papegaai.
Whites with many faces: mineral and taut at Chablis (lemon, green apple, flint), opulent and buttery at Meursault and Puligny-Montrachet (hazelnut, brioche, yellow fruits), tense and chalky in Champagne (Blanc de Blancs). Also vinified sparkling and widely exported (Sonoma, Margaret River, Casablanca). A Burgundian variety, a cross of Pinot Noir × Gouais Blanc, half-sibling of Aligoté.
