Winery Glen Carlou The Curator's Collection Cabernet Franc
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 The Curator's Collection Cabernet Franc from the Winery Glen Carlou
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In the mouth the The Curator's Collection Cabernet Franc of Winery Glen Carlou in the region of Western Cape is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.
Food and wine pairings with The Curator's Collection Cabernet Franc
Pairings that work perfectly with The Curator's Collection Cabernet Franc
Original food and wine pairings with The Curator's Collection Cabernet Franc
The The Curator's Collection Cabernet Franc of Winery Glen Carlou matches generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of beef tongue in hot sauce, baked lamb neck on a bed of vegetables and grapes or duck legs confit.
Details and technical informations about Winery Glen Carlou's The Curator's Collection Cabernet Franc.
Discover the grape variety: Cabernet franc
Cabernet Franc is one of the oldest red grape varieties in Bordeaux. The Libourne region is its terroir where it develops best. The terroirs of Saint-Emilion and Fronsac allow it to mature and develop its best range of aromas. It is also the majority in many blends. The very famous Château Cheval Blanc, for example, uses 60% Cabernet Franc. The wines produced with Cabernet Franc are medium in colour with fine tannins and subtle aromas of small red fruits and spices. When blended with Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon, it brings complexity and a bouquet of aromas to the wine. It produces fruity wines that can be drunk quite quickly, but whose great vintages can be kept for a long time. It is an earlier grape variety than Cabernet Sauvignon, which means that it is planted as far north as the Loire Valley. In Anjou, it is also used to make sweet rosé wines. Cabernet Franc is now used in some twenty countries in Europe and throughout the world.
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of The Curator's Collection Cabernet Franc from Winery Glen Carlou are 2013
Informations about the Winery Glen Carlou
The Winery Glen Carlou is one of of the world's great estates. It offers 51 wines for sale in the of Paarl to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Paarl
The wine region of Paarl is located in the region of Coastal Region of Western Cape of South Africa. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Vilafonté or the Domaine La Motte Wine Estate produce mainly wines red, white and sweet. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Paarl are Cabernet-Sauvignon, Merlot and Cabernet franc, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Paarl often reveals types of flavors of butterscotch, prune or eucalyptus and sometimes also flavors of mocha, cranberry or strawberries.
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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