Winery Douglas GreenReserve Selection Shiraz
Red wine
In the mouth this red wine is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.
This wine generally goes well with poultry, beef or game (deer, venison).
Taste structure of the Reserve Selection Shiraz from the Winery Douglas Green
Light | Bold | |
Smooth | Tannic | |
Dry | Sweet | |
Soft | Acidic |
In the mouth the Reserve Selection Shiraz of Winery Douglas Green in the region of Western Cape is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.
Wine flavors and olphactive analysis
On the nose the Reserve Selection Shiraz of Winery Douglas Green in the region of Western Cape often reveals types of flavors of non oak, earth or oak and sometimes also flavors of spices, red fruit.
Food and wine pairings with Reserve Selection Shiraz
Pairings that work perfectly with Reserve Selection Shiraz
Original food and wine pairings with Reserve Selection Shiraz
The Reserve Selection Shiraz of Winery Douglas Green matches generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of beef with onions chinese style, pastillas with lamb and apricots or duck fillets with honey.
Details and technical informations about Winery Douglas Green's Reserve Selection Shiraz.
Discover the grape variety: Zweigelt
Intraspecific crossing between the saint laurent and the limberger realized in 1922 and in Austria by Fritz Zweigelt (1888/1964) who named it rotburger. Very well known in Austria, it can be found in most Eastern countries, Japan, Germany, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, Canada, the United States, etc. In France, it is not very well known and yet this variety has interesting qualities when vinified as a single variety for both red and rosé wines. - Synonyms: rotburger, klosterneuburger, zweigelt blau, blauer-zweigelt in Germany, zweigeltrebe in Austria, Great Britain and the Czech Republic, blauer zwelgetrabe in Hungary, etc. (for all the synonyms of the grape varieties, click here !)
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of Reserve Selection Shiraz from Winery Douglas Green are 2013, 2008, 2012, 0 and 2009.
Informations about the Winery Douglas Green
The Winery Douglas Green is one of of the world's great estates. It offers 56 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 Pinotage">Pinotage grape varieties can be fresh and juicy or Full-bodied and gutsy.
The word of the wine: Wrapped
Said of a wine rich in alcohol, but in which the mellowness dominates.
