Winery The Ahrens FamilyBendewijn Cab Franc
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The Bendewijn Cab Franc of the Winery The Ahrens Family is in the top 0 of wines of Bottelary.
Details and technical informations about Winery The Ahrens Family's Bendewijn Cab Franc.
Discover the grape variety: Millot Léon
Interspecific crossing between the 101-14 Millardet and Grasset (vitis riparia X vitis rupestris) and the goldriesling obtained by Eugène Kühlmann (1858-1932) around 1911 and marketed around 1921. With these same parents, he obtained among others the Maréchal Foch. Léon Millot is still found in Canada, the United States, Switzerland, Germany, Belgium, Denmark, Sweden, the Netherlands, Poland and England. In France, where it was grown for a long time in Alsace, it is no longer grown in the vineyards, although it is listed in the Official Catalogue of Vine Varieties, list A.
Informations about the Winery The Ahrens Family
The Winery The Ahrens Family is one of of the world's great estates. It offers 25 wines for sale in the of Bottelary to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Bottelary
The wine region of Bottelary is located in the region of Stellenbosch of Western Cape of South Africa. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine The Ahrens Family or the Domaine The Ahrens Family produce mainly wines red and white. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Bottelary are Cabernet-Sauvignon, Chenin blanc and Pinotage, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Bottelary often reveals types of flavors of non oak, earth or microbio and sometimes also flavors of oak, spices or red 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: Anthocyanins
Phenolic compounds present in the skin of grapes that give colour to red wines during maceration.
