WoTM – Flagstone ‘Writer’s Block’
Pinotage 2014
Viticulturist Anton Koos in the Silkbush Pinotage vineyard |
This is
sourced from Silkbush Vineyards in the
Breede River that also supplies top of the range Time.Place.Manner. It was a Pinotage
Top 10 winner in 2016.
And it was gorgeous, sophisticated with overtones
of cedar wood shavings. It was delicious
with elegant restrained blackcurrant fruit flavours. Not overt but delicate
and, unfortunately, it was my only bottle because I think it will have an interesting
long life.
The back label suggests these food
matches ‘braised Springbok fillet, spicy
lamb stew, and seven Indian curries’.
Tantalisingly it doesn’t name the seven
curries. So I think that seven has an extraneous ‘s’…..
The Pinotage block in Silkbush Vineyard |
Flagstone's Pinotage (arrowed) is at the top of the vineyard |