The Winery Usana of Western Cape

Winery Usana
The winery offers 12 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.8.
It is ranked in the top 606 of the estates of Western Cape.
It is located in Western Cape

The Winery Usana is one of the best wineries to follow in Western Cape.. It offers 12 wines for sale in of Western Cape to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Usana wines

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

The top white wines of Winery Usana

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Usana

How Winery Usana wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of shellfish, spicy food or lean fish such as recipes of squid with garlic and parsley, curried coral lentils or blanquette of fish.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Usana

On the nose the white wine of Winery Usana. often reveals types of flavors of non oak, earth or microbio and sometimes also flavors of oak, tree fruit or spices. In the mouth the white wine of Winery Usana. is a with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Usana

  • 2012With an average score of 4.20/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.82/5
  • 2019With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.79/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.78/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.73/5

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

  • Pinot Gris
  • Sauvignon Blanc
  • Chenin Blanc
  • Chardonnay

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 red wines of Winery Usana

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Usana

How Winery Usana wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or poultry such as recipes of small stuffed fish from nice, lamb epigram in spicy sauce or lemon chicken.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Usana

On the nose the red wine of Winery Usana. often reveals types of flavors of non oak, earth or vegetal and sometimes also flavors of oak, spices or red fruit. In the mouth the red wine of Winery Usana. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Usana

  • 2017With an average score of 4.30/5
  • 2016With an average score of 4.10/5
  • 2015With an average score of 4.10/5
  • 2013With an average score of 4.10/5
  • 2014With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2012With an average score of 3.50/5

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

  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Pinot Noir

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 Usana

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 Usana.

Discover the grape variety: Pinot gris

Pinot Gris is a grey grape variety mutated from Pinot Noir. It has its origins in Burgundy, where it is called pinot-beurot in reference to the colour of the grey robes worn by the monks of the region. Established in Alsace since the 17th century, pinot gris was called tokay until 2007. It is made up of bunches of small berries that vary in colour from pink to blue-grey. It is particularly well suited to the continental climate because it is resistant to the cold in winter and to spring frosts. This variety also likes dry limestone soils with plenty of sunshine in the summer. Pinot Gris is well suited to late harvesting or to the selection of noble grapes, depending on the year and the concentration of sugars in the berries. Pinot Gris wines are distinguished by their aromatic complexity of white fruits, mushrooms, honey, vanilla, cinnamon, etc., and their great finesse. In the Loire Valley, pinot gris is used in the Coteaux-d'Ancenis appellations. It gives dry or sweet wines with pear and peach aromas.

News about Winery Usana and wines from the region

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Amid the devastation and turmoil since Russia’s invasion on 24 February, Beykush winery on southern Ukraine’s Black Sea Coast has been among those attempting to continue operations as much as possible. Last week, Beykush began transporting thousands of wines to western Ukraine in order to protect them for possible export to other markets, winery director Svetlana Tsybak told Decanter. ‘Yesterday we sent three palettes, about 1,200 bottles, and today the same quantity,’ she said. She also s ...

Flooding in south-east Australia set to hit wine production

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Couple arrested in Croatia over €1.6m wine heist

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The word of the wine: Vaccaresis

Black grape variety, one of the 13 of Châteauneuf-du-Pape, which can be used in a blend in this appellation and other neighbouring AOCs (Côtes-du-Rhône, Gigondas...). It produces a floral, elegant and fresh wine, which balances the warmth of the Grenache. It is rare.