The Winery Storm of Hemel-en-Aarde Valley of Western Cape

Winery Storm - Ignis Pinot Noir
The winery offers 7 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 4.2.
It is ranked in the top 4 of the estates of Western Cape.
It is located in Hemel-en-Aarde Valley in the region of Western Cape

The Winery Storm is one of the largest wineries in the world. It offers 7 wines for sale in of Hemel-en-Aarde Valley to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Storm wines

Looking for the best Winery Storm wines in Hemel-en-Aarde Valley among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Storm 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 Storm wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Winery Storm

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Storm

How Winery Storm wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, veal or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of beef tongue with vegetables and madeira sauce, bacon and mushroom tagliatelle or duck sleeves in cider.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Storm

On the nose the red wine of Winery Storm. 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 Storm. is a with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Storm

  • 2014With an average score of 4.35/5
  • 2012With an average score of 4.30/5
  • 2016With an average score of 4.20/5
  • 2015With an average score of 4.16/5
  • 2018With an average score of 4.15/5
  • 2017With an average score of 4.14/5

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

  • Pinot Noir

Discovering the wine region of Hemel-en-Aarde Valley

The wine region of Hemel-en-Aarde Valley is located in the region of Walker Bay of Western Cape of South Africa. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Restless River or the Domaine Restless River produce mainly wines red, white and pink. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Hemel-en-Aarde Valley are Pinot noir, Chardonnay and Cabernet-Sauvignon, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Hemel-en-Aarde Valley often reveals types of flavors of pineapple, tangerine or butterscotch and sometimes also flavors of beeswax, quince or wax.

In the mouth of Hemel-en-Aarde Valley is a powerful with a nice freshness. We currently count 25 estates and châteaux in the of Hemel-en-Aarde Valley, producing 83 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Hemel-en-Aarde Valley go well with generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or poultry.

The top white wines of Winery Storm

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Storm

How Winery Storm wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or vegetarian such as recipes of beef bourguignon with cookéo, tuna pie or leek, goat cheese and bacon quiche.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Storm

On the nose the white wine of Winery Storm. often reveals types of flavors of non oak, earth or microbio and sometimes also flavors of vegetal, oak or tree fruit. In the mouth the white wine of Winery Storm. is a powerful with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Storm

  • 2015With an average score of 4.40/5
  • 2018With an average score of 4.25/5
  • 2017With an average score of 4.23/5
  • 2019With an average score of 4.05/5
  • 2016With an average score of 4.00/5

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

  • Chardonnay
  • Sauvignon Blanc

Discover the grape variety: Pinot noir

Pinot noir is an important red grape variety in Burgundy and Champagne, and its reputation is well known! Great wines such as the Domaine de la Romanée Conti elaborate their wines from this famous grape variety, and make it a great variety. When properly vinified, pinot noit produces red wines of great finesse, with a wide range of aromas depending on its advancement (fruit, undergrowth, leather). it is also the only red grape variety authorized in Alsace. Pinot Noir is not easily cultivated beyond our borders, although it has enjoyed some success in Oregon, the United States, Australia and New Zealand.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Storm

Planning a wine route in the of Hemel-en-Aarde Valley? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Winery Storm.

Discover the grape variety: Chardonnay

The white Chardonnay is a grape variety that originated in France (Burgundy). It produces a variety of grape specially used for wine making. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. This variety of grape is characterized by small bunches, and small grapes. White Chardonnay can be found in many vineyards: South West, Burgundy, Jura, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Beaujolais, Savoie & Bugey, Loire Valley, Champagne, Rhone Valley, Armagnac, Lorraine, Alsace, Provence & Corsica.

News about Winery Storm and wines from the region

Andrew Jefford: ‘2021 has been the year of all the miseries’

How’s the weather been this year? Awful. ‘La nature m’écoeure’, one of my wine-growing friends posted on Facebook on 8 April, having been out to look at the frost-crippled shoots on his vines that morning: ‘Nature disgusts me’. It takes a lot to make a wine-grower feel that. He wasn’t alone. Jeremiads echo around the northern hemisphere as 2021 closes. It’s been the year of all the miseries. None suffered more horribly than the growers of Germany’s Ahr valley, where floodwaters caused by the fou ...

How the fine wine market looks heading into autumn 2022

The fine wine market goes into autumn 2022 after a particularly strong period of gains, although there has been greater uncertainty about momentum in recent weeks. At Liv-ex, a global marketplace for the trade, the Liv-ex 100 index dipped 0.3% in July 2022 but had risen every month for two years prior to that. UK-based merchant Bordeaux Index recently reported prices on the market up by 10% in the first half of 2022, with Burgundy up 26% on average. Strong activity on the LiveTrade online tradin ...

In recent years, more and more people have been paying attention to Uruguay’s wine scene thanks to the distinctive identity of its coastal regions, which are swept by winds from the Atlantic Ocean and the Río de la Plata. The country’s proximity to the ocean and one of the largest rivers on the planet means that the vintage effect is quite prominent here. Each harvest depends on the rainfall, sun and strength of the winds experienced that year. Today, Uruguay has around 5,966ha under vine distri ...

The word of the wine: Destemming

Operation consisting in eliminating the vegetal part of the bunch supporting the berries, its maceration with the must giving a herbaceous taste to the wine.