Viticulture at TOKARA is considered a long-term investment.

The estate devotes significant capital into ensuring the most cutting edge technologies are available for vineyard analysis and wine production. TOKARA is the first cellar to make commercial use of the NDVI process, which captures both visible and infrared light emitted from vineyards to create a colour index describing variances between cultivated sections.

Apart from technology, superior wines require superior raw materials. TOKARA has a highly skilled and tirelessly dedicated labour force, working on some of the most exceptional terroirs in the country. The soil types at TOKARA belong to the Oakleaf and Tukulu families and are classified as high potential, inducing relatively high vigour.

Three prime farming locations, each situated in some of the Western Cape’s best cool-climate viticulture districts, supply the TOKARA winery. The first of these is a 60 hectare combination of properties in and around the TOKARA winery situated 5km from the historical town of Stellenbosch.

This “home vineyard” area on the southern slopes of the Simonsberg Mountain harvests exceptional examples of various grape varieties and produces the bulk of the wine that fills TOKARA’s 950 ton cellar.

The “Highlands” farm in Elgin and the “Siberia” property in the Hemel-and-Aarde Valley near Hermanus are TOKARA’s two other sources of white fruit. Both provide equally outstanding conditions for vineyard growth and add fascinating variety to the TOKARA collection.