Cabernet Sauvignon

This wine pairs excellently with ribeye steak, grilled or slow-cooked lamb with rosemary and thyme, braised beef short rib, char-grilled cheeseburgers, mature cheddar and gouda, and creamy blue cheeses such as gorgonzola.

The vineyards are nestled on the slopes of the Simonsberg Mountain between the wine-growing areas of Franschhoek, Stellenbosch, and Paarl in the Western Cape, South Africa. The soils are a combination of Klapmuts/Longlands types of Malmesbury shale origin, as well as Oakleaf and Hutton types of Cape granite origin. ​

Grapes are harvested from multiple vineyard blocks. The wine is matured in a combination of 40% new and 60% second- and third-fill 300-liter oak barrels for 18 months before being bottled and matured for an additional three months prior to release. ​

Babylonstoren is one of the oldest Cape Dutch farms, set at the foot of Simonberg in the Franschhoek wine valley. It has a fruit and vegetable garden of beauty and diversity, unique accommodation, fine food and wine, and evokes a sense of wellbeing. Our wines are produced in a state-of-the-art winery and are made to showcase the soils and climate where their grapes are grown. The Tasting Room sits adjacent to the Wine Cellar, offering views of the conical Babylonstoren hill, Simonsberg and the Banghoek Mountains. We have about 94 hectares (232 acres) under vine and produce 13 different grape varieties, with our highest vines – pinot noir and chardonnay – lying against Simonsberg at some 600 metres above sea level. Led by cellar master Charl Coetzee and winemaker Klaas Stoffberg, the farm’s 2011 harvest led to the first bottling of wine under the Babylonstoren label.