Winery PackwoodGent Brut
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The Gent Brut of the Winery Packwood is in the top 0 of wines of Plettenberg Bay.
Details and technical informations about Winery Packwood's Gent Brut.
Discover the grape variety: Chenin
Chenin, also known as pinot de la Loire Valley (pineau), is the flagship grape variety of the Loire Valley. It would have found its first origins in Anjou where it would have been cultivated by the monks of the Abbey of Saint-Maur located between Angers and Saumur since the 6th century. chenin is a great white grape variety which likes particularly the chalky soils called here stones of tufa which were used for the construction of the castles of the Loire Valley. Its bunches are medium-sized, fairly compact and its berries are more or less small. It is an early variety, which resists well to diseases. Chenin has the particularity of being able to participate as well in the elaboration of dry white wines as of sweet white wines or sparkling wines. Perfectly structured by the acidity, elegant, with a complex nose and aromas of yellow fruits, dry fruits, citrus fruits, white flowers, honey... the wine resulting from the chenin is rather lively and nervous, which allows him a good potential of guard. Chenin covers about 10,000 hectares in France, and is very productive in South Africa where it covers more than 26,000 hectares.
Informations about the Winery Packwood
The Winery Packwood is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 7 wines for sale in the of Plettenberg Bay to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Plettenberg Bay
The wine region of Plettenberg Bay is located in the region of Cape South Coast of Western Cape of South Africa. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Newstead or the Domaine Bramon produce mainly wines white, red and sparkling. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Plettenberg Bay are Chardonnay, Pinot noir and Pinotage, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Plettenberg Bay often reveals types of flavors of microbio, vegetal or oak and sometimes also flavors of tree fruit, citrus fruit or tropical fruit.
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: Cordon de Royat (size in)
Short trellised pruning with one or two horizontal arms stretched over a wire. Very suitable for mechanization, it offers a very good exposure of the bunches as well as an excellent aeration.
