The Winery Varkenskraal is one of the best wineries to follow in Marlborough.. It offers 3 wines for sale in of Marlborough to come and discover on site or to buy online.
Looking for the best Winery Varkenskraal wines in Marlborough among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Varkenskraal 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 Varkenskraal wines with technical and enological descriptions.
How Winery Varkenskraal wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of shellfish, lean fish or fruity desserts such as recipes of cuttlefish in parsley sauce, monkfish with honey and cider vinegar or rice with milk.
World reference for Sauvignon Blanc: aromatic, exuberant whites with signature notes of passion fruit, gooseberry, grapefruit and cut grass, sharp lively acidity and an iodised finish. King grape on 71% of the vineyard since 1972. Also fine, silky Pinot Noir (cherry, plum, spice), taut Chardonnay and lively Riesling. Traditional-method sparklers on the rise.
28,000 ha in the northeast of the South Island, sunny oceanic climate, stony soils.
How Winery Varkenskraal wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes such as recipes .
Chameleon whites with taut acidity, ranging from mineral dry (Savennières, Vouvray sec) to off-dry and medium-sweet (Vouvray, Montlouis), sumptuous botrytised sweet (Quarts-de-Chaume, Bonnezeaux, Coteaux du Layon) and brilliant sparkling (Crémant de Loire, Vouvray brut). Aromas of quince, apple, honey, white flowers, beeswax and flint. An Anjou variety, also star of South Africa's Western Cape.
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Powerful, deep reds with firm tannins and dense texture, showing aromas of blackberry, leather, garrigue, black pepper, liquorice and animal notes (game, forest floor) with age. Star of Bandol AOC as a single variety and pillar of Châteauneuf-du-Pape, Gigondas and Costières blends. Also in GSM in Languedoc and Australia. A late-ripening variety of Spanish origin (Mataró/Monastrell).
