The Winery Rooibos Ridge of Western Cape

Winery Rooibos Ridge
The winery offers 4 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.8.
It is currently not ranked among the best domains of Western Cape.
It is located in Western Cape

The Winery Rooibos Ridge is one of the best wineries to follow in Western Cape.. It offers 4 wines for sale in of Western Cape to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Rooibos Ridge wines

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

The top white wines of Winery Rooibos Ridge

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Rooibos Ridge

How Winery Rooibos Ridge wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of shellfish, spicy food or lean fish such as recipes of barbecued lobster, traditional lamb couscous (from algeria) or blanquette of monkfish and scallops.

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

  • Chenin 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 Rooibos Ridge

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Rooibos Ridge

How Winery Rooibos Ridge wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, game (deer, venison) or poultry such as recipes of pork tongue with tomato sauce and pickles, duck aiguillettes with basalmic or coconut chicken curry in thermomix.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Rooibos Ridge

On the nose the red wine of Winery Rooibos Ridge. often reveals types of flavors of non oak, earth or microbio and sometimes also flavors of oak, spices or red fruit. In the mouth the red wine of Winery Rooibos Ridge. is a powerful with a lot of tannins present in the mouth.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Rooibos Ridge

  • 2017With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.72/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.60/5

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

  • Pinotage
  • Shiraz/Syrah

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.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Rooibos Ridge

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 Rooibos Ridge.

Discover the grape variety: Pinotage

An intraspecific cross between pinot noir and cinsaut called hermitage, obtained in South Africa in 1925 by Professor Abraham Izak Perold. Since then, it has been propagated in Africa, New Zealand, Australia, the United States (California), Canada, Brazil, Israel, etc. In France, it is practically unknown, although it is registered in the Official Catalogue of Vine Varieties on the A1 list. - Synonymy: none to date (for all the synonyms of the varieties, click here!).

News about Winery Rooibos Ridge and wines from the region

Old Vine Charter: Perth’s Swan Valley to preserve historic vines

Old vines from Western Australia’s Swan Valley will be protected in the soon-to-be launched Swan Valley Old Vine Charter (OVC). More than 20 wineries from this historic region, a 30-minute drive from the state capital of Perth, are participating. The programme will see grapevines from 35 to 125 years of age registered and preserved. Participating wineries include Talijancich Wines, Nikola Estate, John Kosovich Wines, Mandoon Estate and Sandalford Wines. While the vines are predominantly Shiraz, ...

Flooding in south-east Australia set to hit wine production

Flood concerns have continued to hit parts of Australia, with the country’s Bureau of Meteorology warning today (17 November) that ‘major flooding’ was ongoing in communities in New South Wales, as well as along a number of rivers in Victoria. In the wine world, there were were concerns that flooding of vineyards in Victoria last month is now being repeated at some New South Wales wineries after continued spring rain in the south-east of Australia. There was even flash flooding ...

Decanter’s Regional Editors pick out their top wines for Decanter Fine Wine Encounter NYC

In the first part of this series, see the wines that the Decanter editorial team is most excited about tasting at the Decanter Fine Wine Encounter NYC on Saturday 18th June 2022. Amy Wislocki – Decanter Magazine Editor Cape Landing Blackwood Cabernet Sauvignon, Margaret River 2019 At the end of every year at Decanter, we organise a ‘Wines of the Year‘ tasting. We ask our key contributors and editorial staff to pick out the wines that most impressed them during the year just gon ...

The word of the wine: Roussette

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