The Winery The Blacksmith of Swartland of Western Cape

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The winery offers 22 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.8.
It is ranked in the top 78 of the estates of Western Cape.
It is located in Swartland in the region of Western Cape

The Winery The Blacksmith is one of the world's great estates. It offers 22 wines for sale in of Swartland to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery The Blacksmith wines

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

The top red wines of Winery The Blacksmith

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

How Winery The Blacksmith wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, game (deer, venison) or poultry such as recipes of navarin of the sea da gigi, duck legs with honey and orange or lemon chicken.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery The Blacksmith

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

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery The Blacksmith

  • 2014With an average score of 4.10/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.88/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.83/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.82/5
  • 2020With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.72/5

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

  • Cinsault
  • Grenache
  • Carignan
  • Durif
  • Pinotage
  • Cinsaut

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 The Blacksmith

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

How Winery The Blacksmith wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of shellfish, spicy food or lean fish such as recipes of shrimp in coconut milk curry, caramelized lamb mice or chicken chop suey.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery The Blacksmith

On the nose the white wine of Winery The Blacksmith. often reveals types of flavors of earth, tree fruit or citrus fruit and sometimes also flavors of oak, spices. In the mouth the white wine of Winery The Blacksmith. is a powerful with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery The Blacksmith

  • 2017With an average score of 4.20/5
  • 2020With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.85/5
  • 2019With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.60/5

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

  • Chenin Blanc
  • Colombard

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.

The top sparkling wines of Winery The Blacksmith

Food and wine pairings with a sparkling wine of Winery The Blacksmith

How Winery The Blacksmith wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of shellfish, lean fish or fruity desserts such as recipes of traditional tunisian couscous, whiting fillet in papillotes or yoghurt cake.

The grape varieties most used in the sparkling wines of Winery The Blacksmith.

  • Chenin Blanc

The word of the wine: Spicy

Said of a wine whose taste and aromas are reminiscent of spices.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery The Blacksmith

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 Blacksmith.

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 The Blacksmith and wines from the region

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 ...

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 ...

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: Spicy

Said of a wine whose taste and aromas are reminiscent of spices.