The Winery Heron's Nest of Western Cape

Winery Heron's Nest
The winery offers 4 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.4.
This estate is part of the Clos Malverne.
It is ranked in the top 3097 of the estates of Western Cape.
It is located in Western Cape

The Winery Heron's Nest is one of the best wineries to follow in Western Cape.. It offers 4 wines for sale in of Western Cape to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Heron's Nest wines

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

The top red wines of Winery Heron's Nest

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Heron's Nest

How Winery Heron's Nest wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, game (deer, venison) or poultry such as recipes of quick and easy monkfish tail, duck breast with peaches and spices or basque chicken.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Heron's Nest

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

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Heron's Nest

  • 2008With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2009With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2019With an average score of 3.65/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.57/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.50/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.47/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Winery Heron's Nest.

  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Pinotage

Discovering the wine region of Western Cape

Cradle of South African wine. Signature Chenin Blanc (Steen, 20%) in ample, fresh whites with notes of quince, yellow apple, honey and acacia flower, from crisp dry to sweet. Sharp, iodised Sauvignon Blanc (Walker Bay, Constantia), balanced Chardonnay. Reds: emblematic Pinotage with roasted aromas (coffee, plum, smoke), firm Cabernet Sauvignon, spicy Syrah.

Fine Pinot Noir on the coast. Mediterranean climate cooled by the Cape Doctor, ~80% of the country's production.

The top white wines of Winery Heron's Nest

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Heron's Nest

How Winery Heron's Nest wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or vegetarian such as recipes of oven roasted rabbit that cooks itself!, salmon carpaccio with pink berries and shallots or quiche with bacon and gruyère cheese.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Heron's Nest

On the nose the white wine of Winery Heron's Nest. often reveals types of flavors of non oak, oak or tree fruit and sometimes also flavors of citrus fruit, tropical fruit. In the mouth the white wine of Winery Heron's Nest. is a powerful with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Heron's Nest

  • 2017With an average score of 3.50/5
  • 2012With an average score of 3.50/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.40/5
  • 0With an average score of 3.40/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.30/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.30/5

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Winery Heron's Nest.

  • Chardonnay

Discover the grape variety: Pinotage

Intensely coloured, structured reds with inky robe and firm tannins, with typical aromas of blackberry, black plum, roasted coffee, cocoa, banana and characteristic smoky notes. Made as powerful ageing reds and as more approachable fruity cuvées, sometimes as rosés. Absolute signature of South Africa (Stellenbosch, Swartland, Paarl). Cross of pinot noir × cinsault created in 1925 by Abraham Perold at Stellenbosch University.

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Discover the grape variety: Chardonnay

Whites with many faces: mineral and taut at Chablis (lemon, green apple, flint), opulent and buttery at Meursault and Puligny-Montrachet (hazelnut, brioche, yellow fruits), tense and chalky in Champagne (Blanc de Blancs). Also vinified sparkling and widely exported (Sonoma, Margaret River, Casablanca). A Burgundian variety, a cross of Pinot Noir × Gouais Blanc, half-sibling of Aligoté.