Winery Leopard’s LeapPinotage - Shiraz
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 Pinotage - Shiraz from the Winery Leopard’s Leap
Light | Bold | |
Smooth | Tannic | |
Dry | Sweet | |
Soft | Acidic |
In the mouth the Pinotage - Shiraz of Winery Leopard’s Leap in the region of Western Cape is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.
Wine flavors and olphactive analysis
On the nose the Pinotage - Shiraz of Winery Leopard’s Leap in the region of Western Cape often reveals types of flavors of cherry, oaky or smoke and sometimes also flavors of blackberry, red fruit or tobacco.
Food and wine pairings with Pinotage - Shiraz
Pairings that work perfectly with Pinotage - Shiraz
Original food and wine pairings with Pinotage - Shiraz
The Pinotage - Shiraz of Winery Leopard’s Leap matches generally quite well with dishes of beef, game (deer, venison) or poultry such as recipes of steak tartare, oven roasted rabbit with mustard or chicken tagine with olives and potatoes.
Details and technical informations about Winery Leopard’s Leap's Pinotage - Shiraz.
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 Pinotage - Shiraz from Winery Leopard’s Leap are 2007, 2016, 2017, 2014 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: Barrel
Bordeaux barrel of 225 litres, used to determine the tonneau (unit of measurement corresponding to four barrels, or 900 litres).
