Shiraz

This Shiraz pairs beautifully with venison, game dishes, and any spicy food, particularly when served with a berry sauce​.

Grapes for this wine come from the slopes of the Simonsberg Mountain, which lies between Franschhoek, Stellenbosch, and Paarl. The region's diverse soil types and elevation provide ideal conditions for cultivating Shiraz​.

After fermentation on the skins for about seven days, the wine undergoes an extended maceration of one week. It is then pressed into 300-liter French oak barrels (70% new and 30% second-fill), where malolactic fermentation takes place. The wine is aged for 18 months before bottling​.

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.