The Winery Aphaea of Western Cape

Winery Aphaea - Cellarmaster's Reserve Red
The winery offers 3 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.9.
It is ranked in the top 1318 of the estates of Western Cape.
It is located in Western Cape

The Winery Aphaea is one of the best wineries to follow in Western Cape.. It offers 3 wines for sale in of Western Cape to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Aphaea wines

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

The top red wines of Winery Aphaea

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Aphaea

How Winery Aphaea wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of chinese fondue, leg of lamb with crust or casserons in the country style.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Aphaea

On the nose the red wine of Winery Aphaea. often reveals types of flavors of non oak, earth or microbio and sometimes also flavors of oak, spices or citrus fruit.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Aphaea

  • 2016With an average score of 4.10/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.70/5

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

  • Pinotage
  • Tinta Barroca
  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Grenache
  • Merlot
  • Petit Verdot

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 pink wines of Winery Aphaea

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Winery Aphaea

How Winery Aphaea wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes such as recipes .

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!).

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Aphaea

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 Aphaea.

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 Aphaea 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, ...

Ukraine winery’s mission to deliver bottles to DWWA

Amid the devastation and turmoil since Russia’s invasion on 24 February, Beykush winery on southern Ukraine’s Black Sea Coast has been among those attempting to continue operations as much as possible. Last week, Beykush began transporting thousands of wines to western Ukraine in order to protect them for possible export to other markets, winery director Svetlana Tsybak told Decanter. ‘Yesterday we sent three palettes, about 1,200 bottles, and today the same quantity,’ she said. She also s ...

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: Physiological maturity

The stage of ripeness of the grape berry when it has reached an optimal weight and when the sugar and acidity levels have stabilized.