The Winery Golden Lion of Western Cape

Winery Golden Lion - Cabernet Sauvignon Rosé
The winery offers 5 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 2.9.
It is currently not ranked among the best domains of Western Cape.
It is located in Western Cape

The Winery Golden Lion is one of the best wineries to follow in Western Cape.. It offers 5 wines for sale in of Western Cape to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Golden Lion wines

Looking for the best Winery Golden Lion wines in Western Cape among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Golden Lion 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 Golden Lion wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top pink wines of Winery Golden Lion

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Winery Golden Lion

How Winery Golden Lion wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or spicy food such as recipes of roast beef with garlic, mamyjaja lamb mouse tagine or chicken on a bed of summer vegetables.

The best vintages in the pink wines of Winery Golden Lion

  • 2014With an average score of 3.00/5

The grape varieties most used in the pink wines of Winery Golden Lion.

  • Cabernet Sauvignon

Discovering 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 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.

The top white wines of Winery Golden Lion

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Golden Lion

How Winery Golden Lion wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or vegetarian such as recipes of rougail sausage, salmon in bellevue or leek, goat cheese and bacon quiche.

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Winery Golden Lion.

  • Chardonnay

Discover the grape variety: Chardonnay

The white Chardonnay is a grape variety that originated in France (Burgundy). It produces a variety of grape specially used for wine making. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. This variety of grape is characterized by small bunches, and small grapes. White Chardonnay can be found in many vineyards: South West, Burgundy, Jura, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Beaujolais, Savoie & Bugey, Loire Valley, Champagne, Rhone Valley, Armagnac, Lorraine, Alsace, Provence & Corsica.

The top red wines of Winery Golden Lion

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Golden Lion

How Winery Golden Lion wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, game (deer, venison) or poultry such as recipes of family potluck, duck with vanilla (reunion island) or old-fashioned chicken in a pot.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Golden Lion

  • 2012With an average score of 2.60/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Winery Golden Lion.

  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Pinotage

The word of the wine: Cooperative cellar

A collective production structure to which winegrowers belong in order to pool their grapes, transform them into wine and ensure its marketing.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Golden Lion

Planning a wine route in the of Western Cape? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Winery Golden Lion.

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!).

News about Winery Golden Lion and wines from the region

Ten years on: Chinese wine’s breakthrough moment at DWWA

The prestige attached to winning at the Decanter World Wine Awards (DWWA) means that being awarded a Bronze medal for some wineries will mean huge celebrations in China, Japan, India, or Thailand. Since the competition began in 2004, I have often reminded judges on my panel about this – whether they are journalists, sommeliers, educators, Masters of Wine or Master Sommeliers. Scroll down for new tasting notes and scores on Jia Bei Lan vintages: from the Chinese wine label that won big at DWWA 20 ...

The Duckhorn Portfolio purchases 107ha vineyard in Paso Robles

The luxury wine group bought Bottom Line Ranch in the San Miguel District for an undisclosed sum. It is exclusively planted with Cabernet, featuring seven top clones on three drought-tolerant rootstocks. Alex Ryan, chief executive and president of The Duckhorn Portfolio, said the sub-appellation’s climate is ideal for producing world-class Cabernet Sauvignon. ‘There is a reason why Paso Robles has the most Cabernet Sauvignon acreage of any appellation in California outside of Napa Valley,’ added ...

Château Angélus: producer profile

Moneypenny, James Bond, Q. Not a bad trio for your wine to share the screen with in its latest cameo. I’ll try not to give too many spoilers if you haven’t yet seen No Time To Die, but I don’t think it gives too much away to say that Bond can’t resist swiping two generous glasses of Château Angélus (2005, although you don’t see the vintage on screen) for himself and Moneypenny from a bottle that Q had carefully opened for his date later that night. This is the third Bond film in which Angélus ha ...

The word of the wine: Cooperative cellar

A collective production structure to which winegrowers belong in order to pool their grapes, transform them into wine and ensure its marketing.