RESTAURANT BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL
WINE TASTING
Enjoy wine tasting daily from 10am – 4pm.
Enjoy wine tasting a selection of our award winning Jakkalsvlei range. Our wine tasting consists of 13 wines that include red, white, moscatos as well as dessert wines (Hanepoot and Red Muscadel). We have received multiple awards from Michelangelo to SA Young Wine Awards.
During December 2014 the new state-of-the-art wine tasting venue was added and now visitors can enjoy the unique and acclaimed Jakkalsvlei wines combined with customized cheese platters and delicious build-your own pizzas.
The wine tasting hall is fairly large with tables both indoors and outdoors with great views over the mountains and vineyards, making this establishment the ideal place to visit be it is sunny or rainy, and let’s face it, who doesn’t want to enjoy a glass of Jakkalsvlei Coffee Pinotage on a rainy day?
Or a sparkly, chilled Moscato on a hot day?
Our warm Jakkalsvlei hospitality awaits you!
| Taste a selection of 6 Jakkalsvlei wines | R100 |
| Taste all 13 Jakkalsvlei wines | R160 |
| Taste all 4 Lord Jackal wines | R150 |
WINE TASTING MENU
Sauvignon Blanc
Colour: Clear crisp translucent colour with light green golden hue.
Bouquet: Beautiful fresh green pepper and cut grass opens to a passion fruit and guava fruit salad nose with hints of lime and fynbos.
Taste: Fresh tropical fruit and green pepper palate with well-balanced crisp acidity that ends to a lingering mineral chalky finish.
Chenin Blanc
Colour: Clear crisp lime yellow.
Bouquet: Fresh ripe tropical and stone fruit salad, litchi, and white pear.
Taste: Abundance of juicy soft tropical fruit, guava and apricot, well rounded smooth structure with fresh acidity and a lingering aftertaste.
River Cuvée
Colour: Crisp light golden hue.
Bouquet: Full flavoured white blend showing soft stone fruit, fresh squeezed lime, and hints of jasmine flowers.
Taste: On the palate the wine follows through with ripe tropical fruit, peach and citrus, a balanced acidity, and a textured chalky mouthfeel.
Pinotage Rosé
Colour: This rosé has a beautiful light rose petal blush pink colour.
Bouquet: The wine shows elegant soft flavours of candyfloss, rose pedal and fresh red berries.
Taste: Smooth and quenching palate with fine red fruit flavours, fresh acidity, and dry fruity finish.
Pink Moscato
Colour: Light pomegranate pink.
Bouquet: Alluring natural-sweet muscat flavours fills the glass as beads of bubbles release fresh fruits flavours of strawberry, red cherries and exotic spice.
Taste: These natural-sweet fruity muscat flavours follows through to the palate, accommodated with refreshing sweetness well balanced acidity and tingling delight of fine bubbles.
White Moscato
Colour: Crisp lime colour.
Bouquet: Alluring natural-sweet muscat flavours fill the glass as beads of bubbles release fresh fruit flavours of litchi, peach and sweet citrus blossom.
Taste: These natural-sweet fruity muscat flavours follow through to the palate, accommodated with refreshing sweetness, well-balanced acidity and the tingling delight of fine bubbles.
Red Moscato
Colour: Beautiful pomegranate red.
Bouquet: Alluring natural-sweet muscat flavours fills the glass as beads of bubbles release fresh fruits flavours of raspberries, blackberries and juicy plums.
Taste: These natural-sweet fruity muscat flavours follows through to the palate, accommodated with refreshing sweetness well balanced acidity and tingling delight of fine bubbles.
Merlot
Colour: Dark plum red colour.
Bouquet: Orchards of ripe prunes, red cherries, and violets. Beautiful integrated oak and hits of dried leaves and fennel.
Taste: Medium-full bodied palate with rounded flavours of red cherries, black raspberries, and fresh plums. The acid and the sweetness of the fruit is well balanced with ripe tannins and oaky smooth lingering finish.
Pinotage
Colour: Dark ruby red.
Bouquet: Toasted flavours of coffee, toffee and dark chocolate initially bursts from the glass as the wine opens to black cherries, fresh plums, and sweet mulberries.
Taste: Soft, smooth, and quaffable flavours of chocolate, roasted coffee beans and sweet dark berries fills the palate. The wine is medium bodied and finishes with silky smooth tannins.
Mount Cuveé
Colour: Dark cherry red.
Bouquet: Dried prunes, black cherries, and white pepper on the nose. The wine has layers of flavours as it opens to spice, violets, and dried leaves.
Taste: The palate is fresh and complex with flavours of red berries, cacao, and dried herbs. The body is medium-full with rounded tannins and a finish of spice and pepper.
Cabernet Sauvignon
Colour: Dark black red like colour.
Bouquet: Intense flavours of black fruits, blackcurrants, cassis, and cedar wood. The wine opens to dark chocolate, graphite, and dried thyme.
Taste: On the palate the wine is full and dense with black fruit, dried herbs and oak, the tannins are firm and ripe with fresh acidity and lasting aftertaste.
Red Muscadel
Colour: Beautiful pomegranate red.
Bouquet: An enchanting bouquet of ripe muscat, ripe strawberries and exotic spices with hints of litchi and grapefruit.
Taste: On the palate the wine is smooth and dense with full sweet flavours of Turkish delight, ripe muscat, and rooibos as layers of flavours unfold to reveal red berries, sweet spice, and sundried raisins.
Hanepoot
Colour: Deep straw yellow green colour.
Bouquet: A luscious amalgamation of ripe muscat, tropical fruit and wildflowers with hints of lemon blossoms and nectarine.
Taste: Full syrupy sweet taste of muscat, litchi and honey and underling flavours of green figs, spice and a sweet sun kissed raisin finish.