Montpellier had since the 1890's a long history of producing award winning top quality white wines. We are also now having astonishing results with our red wines, above all those from our newly established Cabernet Sauvignon, Shiraz, Petit verdot and Mourvèdre vineyards. These vines were planted on an alluvial mound where the virgin, pebbly, almost bouldery soil is shaping an immense terroir. The same reddish pebbles on well-drained sedimentary loams as found in Chateauneuf du Pape, origin of the most famous Cotes du Rhone wine in France. Experience a bottle of Montpellier's Cabernet Sauvignon or Shiraz to appreciate the consequence of this terroir.


The red varieties planted since 2003 on Montpellier are now making a name for themselves. At the South African Young Wine Show in 2007, the Cabernet Sauvignon and the Petit verdot were awarded Silver Medals, and at the recently held 2008 competition, our Cabernet Sauvignon was awarded a Gold Medal, and was also judged the second best Cabernet Sauvignon in the Paarl/Wellington/Tulbagh region of the competition.