MCC Sprankel

This Cap Classique pairs superbly with simply prepared seafood dishes such as fresh crayfish or line fish with a beurre blanc sauce. Its crisp acidity and fine mousse also make it an excellent companion to shellfish, caviar, and light poultry dishes.

Grapes for this wine are sourced from vineyards on the slopes of the Simonsberg Mountain, situated between the wine-growing areas of Franschhoek, Stellenbosch, and Paarl in the Western Cape, South Africa. The soils are of Klapmuts/Longlands type, originating from Malmesbury shale.

The wine underwent a minimum of 55 months of lees ageing in the bottle before disgorgement, contributing to its complexity and depth.

The grapes were whole-bunch pressed, and the first fermentation occurred in stainless steel tanks. The wine was kept on the secondary lees in a stainless steel tank for seven months. The second fermentation took place in the bottle, followed by a further 55 months of lees ageing prior to disgorgement.

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.