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Thandi Wines

Thandi Wines is a wine farm in Elgin, Western Cape. About 60 km from Cape Town.

60 km from Cape Town

About Thandi Wines

Look for Thandi Wines in Elgin — part of the Cape South Coast on the official Cape Wine of Origin map. The cellar is mapped at -34.1656°S, 19.0032°E, about 60 km from central Cape Town as the crow flies. Most visitors reach Elgin from the city in 60–80 minutes. Open-Meteo elevation for this point is 339 metres above sea level. ISRIC SoilGrids at the farm pin estimates soil pH around 6.2, clay content near 13%, organic carbon about 50.1 g/kg in the topsoil (modelled, not a vineyard pit description). Typical Elgin plantings include Sauvignon Blanc, Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, Riesling. Confirm the current range with the farm; this atlas records place, not a live wine list. District climate in brief: Cool, elevated, cloud-prone, one of the Cape's latest harvests. Visitor facilities are not confirmed in the open datasets used here. Treat this pin as a location record and verify hours with the farm. Mapped neighbours include Elgin Ridge, Off The Record Wines, Richard Kershaw Wines. WineFarmz is a Western Cape-only atlas. Origin claims follow the SAWIS / WOSA Wine of Origin hierarchy (geographical unit → region → district → ward), assigned from coordinates and open geographic sources.

Wines made here

Wine list from wine.co.za. The taste words are drawn from those notes, which are not reprinted here. Ask the cellar door what is pouring on the day.

Questions before you go

Where is Thandi Wines?

Thandi Wines is in Elgin, Western Cape. Most visitors drive there from Cape Town in 60–80 minutes.

Wine of Origin

Geographical unit: Western Cape → Cape South Coast → Elgin

Elgin is a cool, elevated basin on the N2 over Sir Lowry's Pass: apple orchards, lakes and some of the Cape's most precise cool-climate wines.

Terroir snapshot

Elevation and soil figures are modelled at the pin, not a vineyard block survey. Use them to compare farms, not to quote a technical sheet.

Latitude
-34.16556
Longitude
19.003223
Elevation
339 m (Open-Meteo)
Soil pH
6.2 (SoilGrids 0–5 cm)
Clay
13% (SoilGrids)
Organic C
50.1 g/kg (SoilGrids)

Sources

  • Wine list: wine.co.za
  • Elevation: Open-Meteo
  • Soil: ISRIC SoilGrids

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