The Winery Lion's Head of Western Cape

Winery Lion's Head
The winery offers 5 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.3.
It is ranked in the top 6201 of the estates of Western Cape.
It is located in Western Cape

The Winery Lion's Head 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 Lion's Head wines

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

The top red wines of Winery Lion's Head

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Lion's Head

How Winery Lion's Head wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or poultry such as recipes of stuffed beef rolls, irish stew with beer or zucchini and goat cheese quiche.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Lion's Head

  • 2017With an average score of 3.50/5
  • 0With an average score of 3.38/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.10/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Winery Lion's Head.

  • Pinotage
  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Ruby Cabernet

Discovering the wine region of Western Cape

Cradle of South African wine. Signature Chenin Blanc (Steen, 20%) in ample, fresh whites with notes of quince, yellow apple, honey and acacia flower, from crisp dry to sweet. Sharp, iodised Sauvignon Blanc (Walker Bay, Constantia), balanced Chardonnay. Reds: emblematic Pinotage with roasted aromas (coffee, plum, smoke), firm Cabernet Sauvignon, spicy Syrah.

Fine Pinot Noir on the coast. Mediterranean climate cooled by the Cape Doctor, ~80% of the country's production.

The top white wines of Winery Lion's Head

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Lion's Head

How Winery Lion's Head wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of shellfish, spicy food or lean fish such as recipes of cuttlefish with cider, spicy chicken and mustard pie or my brazilian sister-in-law's coconut milk fish.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Lion's Head

In the mouth the white wine of Winery Lion's Head. is a with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Lion's Head

  • 2014With an average score of 3.20/5
  • 0With an average score of 3.10/5

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Winery Lion's Head.

  • Chenin Blanc

Discover the grape variety: Chenin blanc

Chameleon whites with taut acidity, ranging from mineral dry (Savennières, Vouvray sec) to off-dry and medium-sweet (Vouvray, Montlouis), sumptuous botrytised sweet (Quarts-de-Chaume, Bonnezeaux, Coteaux du Layon) and brilliant sparkling (Crémant de Loire, Vouvray brut). Aromas of quince, apple, honey, white flowers, beeswax and flint. An Anjou variety, also star of South Africa's Western Cape.

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Discover the grape variety: Pinotage

Intensely coloured, structured reds with inky robe and firm tannins, with typical aromas of blackberry, black plum, roasted coffee, cocoa, banana and characteristic smoky notes. Made as powerful ageing reds and as more approachable fruity cuvées, sometimes as rosés. Absolute signature of South Africa (Stellenbosch, Swartland, Paarl). Cross of pinot noir × cinsault created in 1925 by Abraham Perold at Stellenbosch University.