Directly to the east, on the Atlantic coast, is Constantia. The source of the dessert wine Vin de Constance, drunk by Napoleon when exiled on St Helena, this region is now also the source for some excellent table wines.
Constantia: A legendary sweet wine from South Africa, a favorite of Napolean. It comes from an estate called Groot Constantia, which is still in operation.
Cork: The cork of the bottle.
Red Constantian: Also known as Red Constantia. A red sweet wine produced in the vicinity of Cape Town in South Africa, along the slopes of Table Mountain, from the end of the 17th to the end of 19th century.
Constantia: Buitenverwachting (Bordeaux blend Christine & Cab. & Merlot); Klein Constantia (Cab).
Constantia wines represented a rather singular case because it was the only wine coming from the so called "New World" which excelled, sometimes surpassing, ...
An example of these is "Constantia", a centuries-old wine blend still made in South Africa from the Orange Muscat grape, a darker skinned mutation of the Muscat Frontignan clone, (the latter also known as the Brown Frontignac in Australia), ...
shape of the vine's leaves, although there is a theory that it is a corruption of hanekloot, which means cockerel's testicle from the shape of the grapes themselves. Like Australian Muscats, these can be high-quality fortified wines while Constantia ...
Look out for reds from South Africa's 'own' variety, Pinotage, which makes striking gamey and earthy-tasting wines, often with a savoury, cheesy edge to them. The most famous regions are Stellenbosch, Paarl and Constantia, ...
 See also: Region, Style, Red, Blend, Vineyard
  
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