The Winery Fairbank is one of the best wineries to follow in Western Cape.. It offers 2 wines for sale in of Western Cape to come and discover on site or to buy online.
Looking for the best Winery Fairbank wines in Western Cape among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Fairbank wines. Also find some food and wine pairings that may be suitable with the wines from this area. Learn more about the region and the Winery Fairbank wines with technical and enological descriptions.
How Winery Fairbank wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of shellfish, vegetarian or goat cheese such as recipes of mussels with rosemary and barbecue, summer tuna quiche or millefeuille with courgettes and goat cheese.
On the nose the white wine of Winery Fairbank. often reveals types of flavors of vegetal, citrus fruit or tropical fruit.
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 Western Cape's Elegant, ageworthy Cabernet Sauvignon wines and Bordeaux Blends were at the vanguard as exports recommenced in the mid-1990s, while Burgundy-style Pinot Noir and Chardonnay from Walker Bay are gaining global acclaim, and cool-climate style Sauvignon Blanc from Darling and Overberg is rivaling that made in any other New World country.
The Western Cape's wine regions stretch 300 kilomers (185 miles) from Cape Town to the Mouth of the Olifants River in the North, and 360km (220 miles) to Mossel Bay in the east. Areas under Vine are rarely more than 160km (100 miles) from the coast. Further inland, the influence of the semi-arid Great Karoo Desert takes over.
The climate can be cool and rainy (as in Cape Point and Walker Bay) but is more often than not Mediterranean in nature.
The Western Cape is littered with spectacular mountain ranges that form the Cape Fold belt. These are extremely important for viticulture across the whole region, contributing soils and mesoclimates ideal for the production of premium wines. Of particular importance are the Boland Mountains, which form the eastern border of the Coastal Region, and the Langeberg range, which separates the Breede River Valley from the Klein Karoo semi-desert.
How Winery Fairbank wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of rich fish (salmon, tuna etc), shellfish or vegetarian such as recipes of gratin dauphinois with smoked salmon, shrimp curry (reunionese recipe) or leek, goat cheese and bacon quiche.
On the nose the pink wine of Winery Fairbank. often reveals types of flavors of citrus fruit, red fruit.
- Origin: This variety is widely cultivated in Austria. It is believed to be the result of a natural intraspecific cross between Savagnin and another ancient Austrian variety called Saint Georgen. It can also be found in the northeastern part of Italy, in Germany, Hungary, Romania, Russia, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Moravia, Croatia, the United States (Oregon, Maryland, etc.), Australia, New Zealand and Canada.
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Originally from Bordeaux, Sauvignon, or Sauvignon Blanc, is reputed to be one of the best French grape varieties for white wine. It is a white grape variety, not to be confused with Sauvignon Gris and its pale yellow color, or with Cabernet Sauvignon which produces red wines. Particularly famous thanks to Sancerre, Sauvignon Blanc is cultivated as far as New Zealand, where it produces great wines whose reputation is well established.
