The Winery Lion's Hill of Swartland of Western Cape

Winery Lion's Hill - Cabernet Sauvignon
The winery offers 12 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.1.
This estate is part of the Swartland Winery.
It is currently not ranked among the best domains of Western Cape.
It is located in Swartland in the region of Western Cape

The Winery Lion's Hill is one of the best wineries to follow in Swartland.. It offers 12 wines for sale in of Swartland to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Lion's Hill wines

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

The top red wines of Winery Lion's Hill

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

How Winery Lion's Hill wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or poultry such as recipes of braised beef with guinness, lamb tagine with apricots (morocco) or nanie's diced ham quiche.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Lion's Hill

On the nose the red wine of Winery Lion's Hill. often reveals types of flavors of earth, black fruit. In the mouth the red wine of Winery Lion's Hill. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

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

  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Merlot
  • Pinotage
  • Shiraz/Syrah

Discovering the wine region of Swartland

The wine region of Swartland is located in the region of Coastal Region of Western Cape of South Africa. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Sadie Family or the Domaine Sadie Family produce mainly wines red, white and pink. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Swartland are Chenin blanc, Mourvèdre and Pinotage, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Swartland often reveals types of flavors of cherry, marmalade or cantaloupe and sometimes also flavors of chard, poire nashi or red cherry.

In the mouth of Swartland is a powerful with a nice freshness. We currently count 192 estates and châteaux in the of Swartland, producing 832 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Swartland go well with generally quite well with dishes of pork, game (deer, venison) or rich fish (salmon, tuna etc).

The top white wines of Winery Lion's Hill

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

How Winery Lion's Hill wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or vegetarian such as recipes of endives au gratin without béchamel sauce, baked mackerel or tuna, pepper and tomato quiche.

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

  • Chardonnay
  • Chenin Blanc
  • Sauvignon Blanc

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.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Lion's Hill

Planning a wine route in the of Swartland? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Winery Lion's Hill.

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 Lion's Hill and wines from the region

Decanter World Wine Awards winners available at Marks & Spencer

Marks & Spencer is no stranger to achieving top scores at the Decanter World Wine Awards (DWWA), and to celebrate its results the leading retailer has selected its favourite award-winning wines from this year’s awards, for customers to purchase exclusively on marksandspencer.com. Customers can choose from a carefully selected mix of six delicious winter-warming reds; an irresistible mix of crisp, refreshing, complex white wines from the Old and New World; a mix of both red and white wi ...

Bordeaux ‘Act for Change’ symposium

The focus of the symposium, unsurprisingly, was on the challenges posed by climate change. As if to illustrate the immediacy of the threat, the symposium took place during a heatwave, with temperatures of over 40°C  in Bordeaux and extreme weather events recorded across the coountry: parts of southwest France saw violent storms and winds of 112kph on the evening of 20 June, while vineyards across the Médoc and St-Emilion were damaged by hailstones ‘the size of golfballs’. As Olivier Bernard of D ...

Palladius and Columella verticals: Eben Sadie’s Swartland flagships

The rapid rise of South Africa’s Swartland wine region over the past 20 years has been thrilling to watch. And arguably the most influential winemaker during this renaissance has – and continues to be – Eben Sadie. Sadie was in London recently for a vertical tasting of his flagship wines, the red blend Columella and white blend Palladius. He explained to a rapt audience of critics, buyers and sommeliers how his approach to winemaking has changed over the years, and revealed how he’s preparing fo ...

The word of the wine: Oxidation

Alteration of the wine caused by prolonged contact with oxygen and resulting in a coppery colour with brown reflections and the appearance of typical aromas reminiscent of rancid nuts.