The Winery The Craftsmen of Swartland of Western Cape

Winery The Craftsmen
The winery offers 7 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.5.
It is currently not ranked among the best domains of Western Cape.
It is located in Swartland in the region of Western Cape

The Winery The Craftsmen is one of the best wineries to follow in Swartland.. It offers 7 wines for sale in of Swartland to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery The Craftsmen wines

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

The top white wines of Winery The Craftsmen

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery The Craftsmen

How Winery The Craftsmen wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of rich fish (salmon, tuna etc), shellfish or poultry such as recipes of fish stew, jambalaya (louisiana) or spaetzle.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery The Craftsmen

On the nose the white wine of Winery The Craftsmen. often reveals types of flavors of vegetal, citrus fruit or tree fruit and sometimes also flavors of tropical fruit.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery The Craftsmen

  • 2019With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2020With an average score of 3.30/5

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

  • Grenache Blanc
  • Viognier

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 red wines of Winery The Craftsmen

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery The Craftsmen

How Winery The Craftsmen wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, game (deer, venison) or poultry such as recipes of pasta bolognese, wild boar with honey or roast chicken and potatoes.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery The Craftsmen

On the nose the red wine of Winery The Craftsmen. often reveals types of flavors of non oak, oak or red fruit and sometimes also flavors of black fruit, earth or spices. In the mouth the red wine of Winery The Craftsmen. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery The Craftsmen

  • 2019With an average score of 3.53/5

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

  • Pinotage
  • Shiraz/Syrah
  • Cinsaut
  • Touriga Nacional

Discover the grape variety: Viognier

White Viognier is a grape variety that originated in France (Rhone Valley). 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 grapes of small size. White Viognier can be found in many vineyards: South West, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Rhone Valley, Burgundy, Jura, Champagne, Savoie & Bugey, Provence & Corsica, Loire Valley, Beaujolais.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery The Craftsmen

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 The Craftsmen.

Discover the grape variety: Cinsaut

Cinsaut noir is a grape variety that originated in France (Provence). 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 large bunches and large grapes. Cinsaut noir can be found in several vineyards: South-West, Cognac, Bordeaux, Provence & Corsica, Rhône valley, Languedoc & Roussillon, Loire valley, Savoie & Bugey, Beaujolais, Armagnac.

News about Winery The Craftsmen and wines from the region

What the Decanter team is drinking this Christmas

Tina Gellie, Content Manager and Regional Editor (Australia, South Africa, New Zealand & Canada) It was a big year of Decanter travel for me, heading to Napa and New York in June, South Africa in October and most recently a week each in Margaret River and South Australia. These trips have formed the basis of my festive selections. Christmas lunch on North Stradbroke Island (reunited with my family after four years, no thanks to Covid) always starts with oysters, followed by a bucket of prawn ...

Decanter World Wine Awards winners available at Marks & Spencer

Marks & Spencer is no stranger to achieving top scores at the Decanter World Wine Awards (DWWA), and to celebrate its results the leading retailer has selected its favourite award-winning wines from this year’s awards, for customers to purchase exclusively on marksandspencer.com. Customers can choose from a carefully selected mix of six delicious winter-warming reds; an irresistible mix of crisp, refreshing, complex white wines from the Old and New World; a mix of both red and white wi ...

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 ...

The word of the wine: Double magnum (or Marie-Jeanne)

Bottle with a capacity of 3 litres.