Winery Cape Heights Limited Release Pinotage
In the mouth this red wine is a powerful with a lot of tannins present in the mouth.
This wine generally goes well with poultry, beef or game (deer, venison).
Taste structure of the Limited Release Pinotage from the Winery Cape Heights
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Tannic
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In the mouth the Limited Release Pinotage of Winery Cape Heights in the region of Western Cape is a powerful with a lot of tannins present in the mouth.
Wine flavors and olphactive analysis
On the nose the Limited Release Pinotage of Winery Cape Heights in the region of Western Cape often reveals types of flavors of earth, oak or spices and sometimes also flavors of red fruit, black fruit.
Food and wine pairings with Limited Release Pinotage
Pairings that work perfectly with Limited Release Pinotage
Original food and wine pairings with Limited Release Pinotage
The Limited Release Pinotage of Winery Cape Heights matches generally quite well with dishes of beef, game (deer, venison) or poultry such as recipes of wild boar with honey, duck baeckeoffe with christmas spices and dried fruits or quiche lorraine.
Details and technical informations about Winery Cape Heights's Limited Release Pinotage.
Discover the grape variety: Pinotage
An intraspecific cross between pinot noir and cinsaut called hermitage, obtained in South Africa in 1925 by Professor Abraham Izak Perold. Since then, it has been propagated in Africa, New Zealand, Australia, the United States (California), Canada, Brazil, Israel, etc. In France, it is practically unknown, although it is registered in the Official Catalogue of Vine Varieties on the A1 list. - Synonymy: none to date (for all the synonyms of the varieties, click here!).
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of Limited Release Pinotage from Winery Cape Heights are 2017, 2016, 2014, 1992 and 2015.
Informations about the Winery Cape Heights
The Winery Cape Heights is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 15 wines for sale in the of Western Cape to come and discover on site or to buy online.
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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The word of the wine: Honest
A simple and pleasant wine, without any great quality and without any defects.