Winery Paul Cluver - Ferricrete Gewürztraminer

Winery Paul Cluver Ferricrete Gewürztraminer

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(Average of the reviews for all vintages combined and from several consumer review sources)
Tasters consider this wine to be one of the best in the region.
The Ferricrete Gewürztraminer of Winery Paul Cluver is a white wine from the region of Elgin of Western Cape.
This wine generally goes well with poultry, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or mild and soft cheese.

Wine flavors and olphactive analysis

On the nose the Ferricrete Gewürztraminer of Winery Paul Cluver in the region of Western Cape often reveals types of flavors of earth.

Details and technical informations about Winery Paul Cluver's Ferricrete Gewürztraminer.

Grape varieties
Region/Great wine region
Great wine region
Country
Style of wine
Allergens
Contains sulfites

Discover the grape variety: Gewurztraminer

Gewurztraminer rosé is a grape variety that originated in France. 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 vine is characterized by small bunches and small grapes. Gewurztraminer rosé can be found in many vineyards: Alsace, Loire Valley, Languedoc & Roussillon, Jura, Champagne, Lorraine, Provence & Corsica, Rhone Valley, Savoie & Bugey, Beaujolais, South West.

Last vintages of this wine

Ferricrete Gewürztraminer - 2016
In the top 100 of of Elgin wines
Average rating: 4 1 1 1 1 0
Ferricrete Gewürztraminer - 2015
In the top 100 of of Elgin wines
Average rating: 3.9 1 1 1 1 0

The best vintages of Ferricrete Gewürztraminer from Winery Paul Cluver are 2016, 2015

Informations about the Winery Paul Cluver

The winery offers 31 different wines.
Its wines get an average rating of 3.8.
It is in the top 20 of the best estates in the region
It is located in Elgin in the region of Western Cape

The Winery Paul Cluver is one of of the world's great estates. It offers 25 wines for sale in the of Elgin to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top wine Western Cape
In the top 5500 of of South Africa wines
In the top 5500 of of Elgin wines
In the top 55000 of white wines
In the top 250000 wines of the world

The wine region of Elgin

The wine region of Elgin is located in the region of Cape South Coast of Western Cape of South Africa. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Paul Cluver or the Domaine Matthew Van Heerden produce mainly wines white, red and pink. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Elgin are Pinot noir, Chardonnay and Merlot, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Elgin often reveals types of flavors of cream, stone fruit or cheese and sometimes also flavors of quince, beeswax or citrus zest.


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 Grape/Pinotage">Pinotage grape varieties can be fresh and juicy or Full-bodied and gutsy.

News related to this wine

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The largest-ever year for entries, an incredible 18,244 wines were judged at the 2022 Decanter World Wine Awards – with just 163 wines awarded a Platinum medal. ‘Winning a Platinum medal is something really exceptional’ said Decanter World Wine Awards Co-Chair Sarah Jane Evans MW. ‘Platinum is like the stratospheric level’ she commented, ‘so it’s really saying to the winemaker: this is a great wine.’ Making up just 0.87% of the total wines tasted at the 2022 c ...

Platinum: The 97 point wines of DWWA 2022

The largest-ever year for entries, an incredible 18,244 wines were judged at the 2022 Decanter World Wine Awards – with just 163 wines awarded a Platinum medal. ‘Winning a Platinum medal is something really exceptional’ said Decanter World Wine Awards Co-Chair Sarah Jane Evans MW. ‘Platinum is like the stratospheric level’ she commented, ‘so it’s really saying to the winemaker: this is a great wine.’ Making up just 0.87% of the total wines tasted at the 2022 c ...

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The word of the wine: Pulp

Fleshy and juicy part of the grape berry, it contains sugars, organic acids and various nitrogenous and mineral compounds.

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