Winery Babylonstoren Wine Club Petit Verdot
Red wine
This wine generally goes well with beef and mature and hard cheese.
Wine flavors and olphactive analysis
On the nose the Wine Club Petit Verdot of Winery Babylonstoren in the region of Western Cape often reveals types of flavors of earth, vegetal or spices and sometimes also flavors of black fruit, floral.
Food and wine pairings with Wine Club Petit Verdot
Pairings that work perfectly with Wine Club Petit Verdot
Original food and wine pairings with Wine Club Petit Verdot
The Wine Club Petit Verdot of Winery Babylonstoren matches generally quite well with dishes of beef or mature and hard cheese such as recipes of braised beef with carrots or beetroot and potato gratin.
Details and technical informations about Winery Babylonstoren's Wine Club Petit Verdot.
Discover the grape variety: Petit Verdot
Petit Verdot noir is a grape variety that originated in France (southwest). It produces a variety of grape specially used for wine making. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. This variety of grape is characterized by small bunches and small grapes. Petit Verdot noir can be found in several vineyards: South-West, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Rhone valley, Provence & Corsica, Loire valley, Savoie & Bugey, Beaujolais, Armagnac.
Informations about the Winery Babylonstoren
The Winery Babylonstoren is one of of the world's great estates. It offers 13 wines for sale in the of Simonsberg-Paarl to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Simonsberg-Paarl
The wine region of Simonsberg-Paarl is located in the region of Paarl of Western Cape of South Africa. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Mitre's Edge or the Domaine Noble Hill produce mainly wines red, white and pink. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Simonsberg-Paarl are Cabernet-Sauvignon, Malbec and Cabernet franc, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Simonsberg-Paarl often reveals types of flavors of non oak, oak or spices and sometimes also flavors of black fruit, earth or red fruit.
The wine region of Western Cape
The Western Cape is home to the vast majority of the South African wine industry, and the country's two most famous wine regions, Stellenbosch and Paarl. The city of Cape Town serves as the epicenter of the Cape Winelands, a mountainous, biologically diverse area in the south-western corner of the African continent. A wide variety of wines are produced here. Wines from the Shiraz and Grape/Pinotage">Pinotage grape varieties can be fresh and juicy or Full-bodied and gutsy.
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