The Winery Sequillo of Swartland of Western Cape

Winery Sequillo - Red Blend
The winery offers 4 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 4.1.
It is ranked in the top 15 of the estates of Western Cape.
It is located in Swartland in the region of Western Cape

The Winery Sequillo is one of the world's great estates. It offers 4 wines for sale in of Swartland to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Sequillo wines

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

The top red wines of Winery Sequillo

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Sequillo

How Winery Sequillo wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or spicy food such as recipes of beef luc lake, marinated lamb chops or baked sea bream.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Sequillo

On the nose the red wine of Winery Sequillo. often reveals types of flavors of non oak, earth or microbio and sometimes also flavors of vegetal, oak or tree fruit.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Sequillo

  • 2005With an average score of 4.30/5
  • 2013With an average score of 4.30/5
  • 2014With an average score of 4.20/5
  • 2012With an average score of 4.20/5
  • 2011With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2008With an average score of 4.00/5

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

  • Carignan
  • Tinta Barroca
  • Cinsaut
  • Shiraz/Syrah
  • Grenache
  • Mourvedre

Discovering the wine region of Swartland

The wine region of Swartland is located in the region of Coastal Region of Western Cape of South Africa. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Sadie Family or the Domaine Sadie Family produce mainly wines red, white and pink. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Swartland are Chenin blanc, Mourvèdre and Pinotage, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Swartland often reveals types of flavors of cherry, marmalade or cantaloupe and sometimes also flavors of chard, poire nashi or red cherry.

In the mouth of Swartland is a powerful with a nice freshness. We currently count 192 estates and châteaux in the of Swartland, producing 832 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Swartland go well with generally quite well with dishes of pork, game (deer, venison) or rich fish (salmon, tuna etc).

The top white wines of Winery Sequillo

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Sequillo

How Winery Sequillo wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, game (deer, venison) or shellfish such as recipes of chinchards with white wine and grapes, stuffed guinea fowl in the oven or chipirons / squids with tomato (basque country).

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Sequillo

On the nose the white wine of Winery Sequillo. often reveals types of flavors of non oak, earth or microbio and sometimes also flavors of vegetal, oak or tree fruit.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Sequillo

  • 2012With an average score of 4.50/5
  • 2013With an average score of 4.30/5
  • 2014With an average score of 4.20/5
  • 2010With an average score of 4.20/5
  • 2009With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2005With an average score of 4.00/5

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

  • Verdelho
  • Chenin Blanc
  • Viognier
  • Palomino
  • Clairette

Discover the grape variety: Carignan

Mainly cultivated in the Languedoc region, carignan originates from Spain. Because of its very resistant branches, it is often called hardwood. Its bunches are quite large. They are compact and winged with a lignified stalk. The berries are spherical in shape and take on a bluish-black colour. Carignan has a total of 25 approved clones, the best known of which are 274, 65 and 9. The carignan buds at the beginning of June and is protected from spring frosts. It does not reach maturity until the third period. Also, this grape variety needs warmth and sunshine. It appreciates dry and not very fertile soils. Carignan vines can live for more than 100 years. Those that are more than 30 years old produce a better wine. This wine is well coloured. It is generous and powerful at the same time. Pepper, cherry, blackberry, banana, raspberry, almond, prune and violet are some of the aromas that this grape variety gives off.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Sequillo

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 Sequillo.

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.

News about Winery Sequillo and wines from the region

Bordeaux ‘Act for Change’ symposium

The focus of the symposium, unsurprisingly, was on the challenges posed by climate change. As if to illustrate the immediacy of the threat, the symposium took place during a heatwave, with temperatures of over 40°C  in Bordeaux and extreme weather events recorded across the coountry: parts of southwest France saw violent storms and winds of 112kph on the evening of 20 June, while vineyards across the Médoc and St-Emilion were damaged by hailstones ‘the size of golfballs’. As Olivier Bernard of D ...

Platinum: The 97 point wines of DWWA 2022

The largest-ever year for entries, an incredible 18,244 wines were judged at the 2022 Decanter World Wine Awards – with just 163 wines awarded a Platinum medal. ‘Winning a Platinum medal is something really exceptional’ said Decanter World Wine Awards Co-Chair Sarah Jane Evans MW. ‘Platinum is like the stratospheric level’ she commented, ‘so it’s really saying to the winemaker: this is a great wine.’ Making up just 0.87% of the total wines tasted at the 2022 c ...

Palladius and Columella verticals: Eben Sadie’s Swartland flagships

The rapid rise of South Africa’s Swartland wine region over the past 20 years has been thrilling to watch. And arguably the most influential winemaker during this renaissance has – and continues to be – Eben Sadie. Sadie was in London recently for a vertical tasting of his flagship wines, the red blend Columella and white blend Palladius. He explained to a rapt audience of critics, buyers and sommeliers how his approach to winemaking has changed over the years, and revealed how he’s preparing fo ...

The word of the wine: Liqueur wine

Unfermented must with added brandy, also called liqueur wine: Pineau des Charentes, Floc de Gascogne, Macvin du Jura, Ratafia, Cartagène du Languedoc.