Cape Point
Adjacent to Constantia, this small district is on the western edge of the peninsula that juts southward from Cape Town to the Cape of Good Hope. The vineyards are less than two miles from the Atlantic and its cooling Benguela current, and are also touched by warmer winds from False Bay to the east. Annual rainfall is high. It was first planted in 1996 and was made a district two years later, but at this writing there is only one winery there, called winery there, called Cape Point, with about thirty hectares planted mostly to Sauvignon Blanc and Semillon. Merlot, Shiraz, and Cabernet Sauvignon came into production as of 2000. The focus, however, is Sauvignon Blanc with citrus and stone fruit character rather than the herbaceousness and green pepper so often manifested by this variety.

(Cape Point, South Africa)