Full ripe Portugeuse varieties were used to create this complex, smooth, flavour rich wine; fortified with brandy spirit and aged for two years in old 4000 litre traditinal pipe casks.
The Ratafia has a warm golden colour in the glass One can expect a full bodied sweet wine, with typical Chardonnay characteristics including hints of fresh limes along with rich honey tones. Can be matured for up to 10 years.
This wine is vegan-friendly.
When you enjoy KWV wine, you experience a part of South Africa, a unique and diverse country with hospitable people and a vibrant lifestyle and culture, with natural treasures and cuisine like no other. Muscadel grapes were harvested when perfectly ripe and made ino this soft and elegant Liqueur Wine. It is full of deliciously ripe raisin aromas and flavours. Enjoy all year round lightly chilled or over crushed ice.
In the 18th and 19th centuries the "sweet, luscious and excellent wine called Constantia, so highly esteemed in Europe" was the only wine in the Southern Hemisphere to achieve international acclaim. Napoleon, King Louis Philippe of France, Charles Dickens and Frederick the Great all demanded it while Jane Austen even recommended it as a cure for a broken heart. Now, a century after its disappearance comes the renaissance - Vin de Constance - carefully made in the style of the old Constantia, from vineyards which once produced this legendary wine.