The Winery Somerlust of Western Cape

Winery Somerlust
The winery offers 3 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 2.7.
It is currently not ranked among the best domains of Western Cape.
It is located in Western Cape

The Winery Somerlust is one of the best wineries to follow in Western Cape.. It offers 3 wines for sale in of Western Cape to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Somerlust wines

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

The top red wines of Winery Somerlust

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Somerlust

How Winery Somerlust wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes such as recipes .

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Somerlust

  • 2015With an average score of 2.50/5

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 pink wines of Winery Somerlust

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Winery Somerlust

How Winery Somerlust wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes such as recipes .

Discover the grape variety: Tardif

This is a very old grape variety in southwestern France, with "traces" found in the high Pyrenees, but also in the Atlantic Pyrenees and in the Gers. Virtually unknown in other French wine-producing regions, as well as abroad, it is registered in the Official Catalogue of Wine Grape Varieties, list A1. Tardif is certainly the ideal grape variety to combine with Tannat, especially when the latter is in the majority. The overall quality of its polyphenols is such as to compensate for the often harsh tannins of Tannat in young wines.

The top white wines of Winery Somerlust

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Somerlust

How Winery Somerlust wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes such as recipes .

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Somerlust

  • 2015With an average score of 3.00/5

The word of the wine: Alcooleux

Said of a wine dominated by the presence of alcohol.

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Discover the grape variety: Saint Pépin

Direct producer hybrid resulting from an interspecific cross between 114 E.S. (78 Minnesota x rosette or 1000 Seibel) and white seyval or 5-276 Seyve-Villard) obtained in 1971 in Osceala (United States Wisconsin) by Elmer Swenson (1913-2004). It can be found in North America, Midwest region, in Canada (Quebec, ...), in Eastern countries such as Russia, ... in France it is almost unknown.