Winery Leeuwenkuil Family VineyardsLong Beach Cape Town Merlot
Red wine
In the mouth this red wine is a powerful with a nice freshness.
This wine generally goes well with beef, veal or lamb.
Taste structure of the Long Beach Cape Town Merlot from the Winery Leeuwenkuil Family Vineyards
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In the mouth the Long Beach Cape Town Merlot of Winery Leeuwenkuil Family Vineyards in the region of Western Cape is a powerful with a nice freshness.
Wine flavors and olphactive analysis
On the nose the Long Beach Cape Town Merlot of Winery Leeuwenkuil Family Vineyards in the region of Western Cape often reveals types of flavors of non oak, earth or oak and sometimes also flavors of red fruit, black fruit.
Food and wine pairings with Long Beach Cape Town Merlot
Pairings that work perfectly with Long Beach Cape Town Merlot
Original food and wine pairings with Long Beach Cape Town Merlot
The Long Beach Cape Town Merlot of Winery Leeuwenkuil Family Vineyards matches generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or veal such as recipes of meat and goat pie, sri lankan lamb rolls (mutton rolls) or potjevleesch (meat in a pot).
Details and technical informations about Winery Leeuwenkuil Family Vineyards's Long Beach Cape Town Merlot.
Discover the grape variety: Merlot
Merlot noir is a grape variety that originated in France (Bordeaux). 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 to medium sized bunches, and medium sized grapes. Merlot noir can be found in many vineyards: South West, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Loire Valley, Armagnac, Burgundy, Jura, Champagne, Rhone Valley, Beaujolais, Provence & Corsica, Savoie & Bugey.
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of Long Beach Cape Town Merlot from Winery Leeuwenkuil Family Vineyards are 2017
Informations about the Winery Leeuwenkuil Family Vineyards
The Winery Leeuwenkuil Family Vineyards is one of of the world's great estates. It offers 39 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.
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