Coastal Region

Appears in
Oxford Companion to Wine

By Jancis Robinson

Published 2006

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Coastal Region, a conveniently extensive wine region in south africa, home to several of the country’s most important wine districts and wards, including constantia, Darling, franschhoek (or Franschhoek Valley), paarl, stellenbosch, swartland, tulbagh, and wellington. The name appears on labels of a substantial proportion of South African wines.