"on the pinotage bandwagon once again and the reason why is because it makes terrific wine. Proof is in two recent Wines of the Week – Kidnapper Cliffs Hawkes Bay Pinotage 2009 two weeks ago, and this week Karikari Estate Northland Pinotage 2008.
Don't like Pinotage? Wonder what I'm on about. Well, have you ever tasted Pinotage? Or if so, when did you last actually taste one without any preconceived notions in your mind? Because if you have preconceived notions you are living in the past? It's 2011, not 1967."
Read the rest of Sue's report on her always interesting Wine of the Week blog here.
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I would like to share the tasting note of this Pinotage.
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BREEDING : 16 months in 80% new 225 lit. French oak - 20% 2nd fill.
VISUAL ANALYSIS: limpid, ruby red with purple reflexes, quite thick.
OLFACTORY ANALYSIS: wild, red and not ripe fruit, smoked, tobacco, soap, semi-wet grass and rose.
GUSTATIVE ANALYSIS: dry, great sensation of pseudo-warmth and good mineral notes; the structure is good and the final is wild fruit flavoured in order to testify the nose-mouth correspondence. The salivation certifies that the wine is almost balanced in all its sensations seeing that the tannin is not very notable with a sort of bitterish tendency at the end. The gustative persistence is about 5 seconds.
WINE-FOOD COMBINATION: beef bourguignon
* The sweet tendency of the meat is counterbalancing the mineral salts of the wine
* The fatness of the sauce is in contrast with the salivation of the wine
* The sweet tendency of the meat is counting the bitterish tendency of the tannin
MY PERSONAL OPINION: a red wine which demonstrates much more freshness than the expectations; this fact allows to pair the wine with a red meat with sauce. The positive element which makes lovable and agreeable this wine is that the 14% alcoholic degrees go unnoticed. Its position, at the gustative level, is sited in the sector of the International Taste that settles for all the palates.
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