The Winery The Drift of Western Cape

Winery The Drift
The winery offers 12 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 4.2.
It is ranked in the top 20 of the estates of Western Cape.
It is located in Western Cape

The Winery The Drift is one of the world's great estates. It offers 12 wines for sale in of Western Cape to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery The Drift wines

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

The top red wines of Winery The Drift

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

How Winery The Drift wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, spicy food or poultry such as recipes of white cabbage with bacon, lamb curry indian style or chicken nuggets.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery The Drift

On the nose the red wine of Winery The Drift. 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 The Drift. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery The Drift

  • 2012With an average score of 4.50/5
  • 2016With an average score of 4.44/5
  • 2015With an average score of 4.28/5
  • 2013With an average score of 4.18/5
  • 2014With an average score of 4.10/5
  • 2017With an average score of 4.09/5

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

  • Barbera
  • Shiraz/Syrah
  • Pinotage
  • Pinot Noir
  • Tannat
  • Malbec

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 sparkling wines of Winery The Drift

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

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

The best vintages in the sparkling wines of Winery The Drift

  • 2016With an average score of 3.90/5

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.

The top pink wines of Winery The Drift

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Winery The Drift

How Winery The Drift wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef such as recipes of provencal stew.

Organoleptic analysis of pink wines of Winery The Drift

On the nose the pink wine of Winery The Drift. often reveals types of flavors of red fruit, black fruit.

The best vintages in the pink wines of Winery The Drift

  • 2018With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.50/5

The grape varieties most used in the pink wines of Winery The Drift.

  • Touriga Franca

The word of the wine: Clear

Said of a wine that is clear and brilliant in colour and contains no suspended matter.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery The Drift

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 The Drift.

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 Drift and wines from the region

Chablis wines in the Hong Kong market by Debra MEIBURG

On December 10, 2020, four Hong Kong personalities discussed Chablis wines on a live webinar: Yang LU, Master Sommelier and Official Bourgogne Wines Ambassador, Debra MEIBURG, Master of Wine, Ivy NG, Official Bourgogne Wines Ambassador and Rebecca LEUNG, wine expert. In this minute-long clip, Debra MEIBURG discusses the position of Chablis wines in the Hong Kong market. #Chablis #PureChablis ...

The Morey Saint Denis appellation investigated through its geology and geography

The Bourgogne Wine Board (BIVB) invites you to enjoy this video in which Jean-Pierre Renard, Expert Instructor at the Ecole des Vins de Bourgogne, explains the topographical and geological characteristics of the Morey-Saint-Denis appellation. The vineyard lies on an intensely fractured area. Several characteristic zones can be distinguished, we can say that each Climat has its own personality. This video is taken from the “Rendez-vous avec les vins de Bourgogne” program broadcasted in April 2021 ...

At the heart of the Mâcon terroir

In line with our previous videos « The Climats of Chablis seen from the sky » and « The vineyards of Bourgogne, seen from the sky » », the Bourgogne Wine Board (BIVB) and the Union des Producteurs de Vins de Mâcon offer you a new stroll at the heart of the Mâcon terroir. Established in 1937, this Régionale appellation is divided into three levels: – The first level is known as white, red or rosé Mâcon. The grapes used can come from all around the Mâconnais. – The second level is name ...

The word of the wine: Clear

Said of a wine that is clear and brilliant in colour and contains no suspended matter.