Festive Series

Our Festive MCC goes perfectly with salmon tartare, oysters, sushi or any buttery and soy canapes. But, to experience the delicate bubbles and mousse, have a glass on its own first

The Chardonnay for our Festive Series Cap Classique comes from our Boskloof farm in Agulhas, where Bokkeveld, Koffieklip, and gravel soils, along with cool Atlantic breezes, add freshness and minerality. The Pinot Noir is sourced from Elgin and Stellenbosch—Elgin’s cool climate and iron-rich sandstone soils contrast with Stellenbosch’s granite-derived clay soils and 400m elevation, both ideal for balanced, expressive fruit.

For the Festive Series Cap Classique, wines age on the lees for a minimum of 18 months before disgorgement, with timing monitored monthly to ensure optimal quality.

At Quoin Rock, we focus on small-batch winemaking to identify the highest quality wines. Guided by our Champagne partners, we harvest early mornings in select vineyard sections, transport grapes in cooled trucks, and use whole-bunch pressing. Fermentation begins after overnight settling, mainly in stainless steel tanks with some in old barrels. Our base wines aim for low pH and high acidity.

The name Quoin Rock found its inspiration from the Agulhas area the most southern tip of Africa where Quoin Point is the second most southernly point and where Quoin Rock Wines’ conservation farm Boskloof is located. Ships rounding the cape on their way back from or to markets in the east from the mid-1400’s to these modern times would stop over at the cape of good hope — todays Table Bay Harbour Cape Town to replenish their boats with fresh produce. Farms like Quoin Rock would rush produce to the harbour and from the late 1660’s wines from South Africa started forming part of the goods delivered to the port. Now just over 350 years later South African wines are still exported from Table Bay harbour. While wine production is the main activity at Quoin Rock in Stellenbosch the Agulhas farm Boskloof focuses on conservation. Bontebok springbok eland and zebra have been reintroduced to this area.