Winery Leopard’s LeapChenin Blanc - Sauvignon Blanc
White wine
This wine generally goes well with fruity desserts, vegetarian or lean fish.
Wine flavors and olphactive analysis
On the nose the Chenin Blanc - Sauvignon Blanc of Winery Leopard’s Leap in the region of Western Cape often reveals types of flavors of vegetal, tree fruit or tropical fruit.
Food and wine pairings with Chenin Blanc - Sauvignon Blanc
Pairings that work perfectly with Chenin Blanc - Sauvignon Blanc
Original food and wine pairings with Chenin Blanc - Sauvignon Blanc
The Chenin Blanc - Sauvignon Blanc of Winery Leopard’s Leap matches generally quite well with dishes of rich fish (salmon, tuna etc), shellfish or vegetarian such as recipes of toasted bagel with smoked salmon, pasta shells or leek, goat cheese and bacon quiche.
Details and technical informations about Winery Leopard’s Leap's Chenin Blanc - Sauvignon Blanc.
Discover the grape variety: Chenin blanc
It most certainly originates from the Anjou region and is registered in the official catalogue of wine grape varieties on the A1 list. It can also be found in South Africa, Australia, Argentina, Chile, the United States (California), New Zealand, etc. It is said to be a descendant of Savagnin and to have sauvignonasse as its second parent (Jean-Michel Boursiquot 2019). On the other hand, Chenin blanc is the half-brother of verdelho and sauvignon blanc and is the father of colombard.
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of Chenin Blanc - Sauvignon Blanc from Winery Leopard’s Leap are 2014, 2015, 0, 2016 and 2013.
Informations about the Winery Leopard’s Leap
The Winery Leopard’s Leap is one of of the world's great estates. It offers 46 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: Liquid
Sweet wine containing more than 50 grams of residual sugar per liter. Sweet wines are made from grapes often affected by botrytis cinerea and concentrated either by passerillage (drying of the grapes on the vine stock), or after the harvest (straw wines), or by the cold (ice wines).
