The Winery Lions Gate of Western Cape

Winery Lions Gate
The winery offers 13 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.3.
This estate is part of the Origin Wine.
It is ranked in the top 2552 of the estates of Western Cape.
It is located in Western Cape

The Winery Lions Gate is one of the best wineries to follow in Western Cape.. It offers 13 wines for sale in of Western Cape to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Lions Gate wines

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

The top red wines of Winery Lions Gate

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Lions Gate

How Winery Lions Gate wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or poultry such as recipes of harira de mamie (moroccan soup), rice with paprika and merguez or fresh pasta.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Lions Gate

On the nose the red wine of Winery Lions Gate. often reveals types of flavors of non oak, earth or oak and sometimes also flavors of spices, black fruit or microbio. In the mouth the red wine of Winery Lions Gate. is a powerful.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Lions Gate

  • 2013With an average score of 3.33/5
  • 2011With an average score of 3.30/5
  • 2019With an average score of 3.30/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.28/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.14/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.10/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Winery Lions Gate.

  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Shiraz/Syrah
  • Pinotage

Discovering 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 Western Cape's Elegant, ageworthy Cabernet Sauvignon wines and Bordeaux Blends were at the vanguard as exports recommenced in the mid-1990s, while Burgundy-style Pinot Noir and Chardonnay from Walker Bay are gaining global acclaim, and cool-climate style Sauvignon Blanc from Darling and Overberg is rivaling that made in any other New World country. The Western Cape's wine regions stretch 300 kilomers (185 miles) from Cape Town to the Mouth of the Olifants River in the North, and 360km (220 miles) to Mossel Bay in the east. Areas under Vine are rarely more than 160km (100 miles) from the coast. Further inland, the influence of the semi-arid Great Karoo Desert takes over.

The climate can be cool and rainy (as in Cape Point and Walker Bay) but is more often than not Mediterranean in nature. The Western Cape is littered with spectacular mountain ranges that form the Cape Fold belt. These are extremely important for viticulture across the whole region, contributing soils and mesoclimates ideal for the production of premium wines. Of particular importance are the Boland Mountains, which form the eastern border of the Coastal Region, and the Langeberg range, which separates the Breede River Valley from the Klein Karoo semi-desert.

The top white wines of Winery Lions Gate

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Lions Gate

How Winery Lions Gate wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of shellfish, spicy food or lean fish such as recipes of real swiss fondue, turkey escalope with curry or pundu na madesu.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Lions Gate

On the nose the white wine of Winery Lions Gate. often reveals types of flavors of citrus fruit, tree fruit or earth and sometimes also flavors of vegetal, tropical fruit. In the mouth the white wine of Winery Lions Gate. is a with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Lions Gate

  • 2019With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.58/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.38/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.34/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.10/5
  • 2012With an average score of 3.10/5

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Winery Lions Gate.

  • Sauvignon Blanc
  • Chenin Blanc
  • Sémillon

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!).

The top sweet wines of Winery Lions Gate

Food and wine pairings with a sweet wine of Winery Lions Gate

How Winery Lions Gate wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of sweet desserts such as recipes of pancakes.

The best vintages in the sweet wines of Winery Lions Gate

  • 2016With an average score of 3.80/5

The grape varieties most used in the sweet wines of Winery Lions Gate.

  • Moscato

The word of the wine: Naturé

See savagnin.

The top pink wines of Winery Lions Gate

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Winery Lions Gate

How Winery Lions Gate wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or pork such as recipes of tournedos rossini, lamb mouse with figs and grapes or old-fashioned pork roll.

The best vintages in the pink wines of Winery Lions Gate

  • 2012With an average score of 3.20/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.10/5

The grape varieties most used in the pink wines of Winery Lions Gate.

  • Shiraz/Syrah
  • Cabernet Franc
  • Pinotage

Discover the grape variety: Sauvignon blanc

Originally from Bordeaux, Sauvignon, or Sauvignon Blanc, is reputed to be one of the best French grape varieties for white wine. It is a white grape variety, not to be confused with Sauvignon Gris and its pale yellow color, or with Cabernet Sauvignon which produces red wines. Particularly famous thanks to Sancerre, Sauvignon Blanc is cultivated as far as New Zealand, where it produces great wines whose reputation is well established.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Lions Gate

Planning a wine route in the of Western Cape? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Winery Lions Gate.

Discover the grape variety: Cabernet franc

Cabernet Franc is one of the oldest red grape varieties in Bordeaux. The Libourne region is its terroir where it develops best. The terroirs of Saint-Emilion and Fronsac allow it to mature and develop its best range of aromas. It is also the majority in many blends. The very famous Château Cheval Blanc, for example, uses 60% Cabernet Franc. The wines produced with Cabernet Franc are medium in colour with fine tannins and subtle aromas of small red fruits and spices. When blended with Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon, it brings complexity and a bouquet of aromas to the wine. It produces fruity wines that can be drunk quite quickly, but whose great vintages can be kept for a long time. It is an earlier grape variety than Cabernet Sauvignon, which means that it is planted as far north as the Loire Valley. In Anjou, it is also used to make sweet rosé wines. Cabernet Franc is now used in some twenty countries in Europe and throughout the world.

News about Winery Lions Gate and wines from the region

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The word of the wine: Naturé

See savagnin.