Winery FairhillsMerlot - Pinotage
Red wine
This wine is a blend of 2 varietals which are the Pinotage and the Merlot.
This wine generally goes well with poultry, beef or game (deer, venison).
Food and wine pairings with Merlot - Pinotage
Pairings that work perfectly with Merlot - Pinotage
Original food and wine pairings with Merlot - Pinotage
The Merlot - Pinotage of Winery Fairhills matches generally quite well with dishes of beef, game (deer, venison) or poultry such as recipes of monkfish tagine, quick duck breast with honey or croque madame.
Details and technical informations about Winery Fairhills's Merlot - 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 Merlot - Pinotage from Winery Fairhills are 2011, 2008, 2009, 0 and 2010.
Informations about the Winery Fairhills
The Winery Fairhills is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 24 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: Green harvest or green harvesting
The practice of removing excess bunches of grapes from certain vines, usually in July, but sometimes later. This is often necessary, but not always a good thing, as the remaining grapes tend to gain weight.
