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- Noon Gun
- Free Run
- Heywood House
- Two Roads
- Wallflower
- Semaphore
- Longitude
- Dragon Tree
- Dark Horse shiraz
- Writer’s Block
- Music Room
- The last Word Port
- Cabernet Merlot
- Chennin Blanc
- Backchat Blend
- Sauvingon Blanc
- Sauvingon Blanc res
- Crafted Red
- Syrah
- Pinot Noir
- Sauvignon Blanc
- Rose
- Merlot
- Green on Green
- Frostline Riesling
- Frostline Chardonnay
- Outsider Shiraz
- Mary Le Bow
- Rainsong Chenin Blanc
- Rainsong Pinotage
- Rainsong Shiraz
- Folklore Sauvignon Blanc
- Folklore Chardonnay
- Folklore Cabernet Franc/Cab
- Matriarch Shiraz
- Matriarch Cabernet
- Sauvignon Blanc
- Cabernet Sauvignon
 - Verjuice
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LONGITUDE
Crafted Dry Red Blend 2004
Our ancient soils and equable, warm climate happily conspire to grow soft-structured, juicy red wines that taste different from the rest of the world. The essence of our Longitude is painstaking blending, always with Pinotage as a component. We want to accentuate a unique South African combination of accessibility and complex diversity. Longitude must taste juicy and fruity. It must feel soft, but have intriguing; lingering tannin and flavour, and it must offer unbeatable value for money.
The building depicted on the front label is the Time Ball Tower, which stands above our old barrel maturation tunnel. In olden times every ship’s captain kept a beady eye on the ball, which used to drop down the mast at exactly noon every day. He could then check the accuracy of his chronometer and be able to calculate Longitude more accurately at sea.
Longitude 2004
Tasting Description:
On the nose there is an explosion of sweet cherry and ripe raspberry aromas. There is an enticing spicy vanilla background, with crushed cashew nuts and a twist of fresh mint. The palate is all about silky tannin and length. The bright flavours of cherry, strawberry and youngberry and woven together with smooth cedar wood, a touch of cumin and rosemary. It finishes with unexpected power and an explosion of plum and chocolate.
Food Paring:
Carpaccio of springbok.
Blend consists of the following components:
• Shiraz (40.17%)
• Pinotage (32.15%)
• Cabernet Sauvignon (20.47%)
• Cabernet Franc (4.36%)
• Mourvedre (1.13%)
• Pinot Noir (1.01%)
• Merlot (0.71%)
Vinification:
Grapes were hand picked during February and March 2003, stored in our cold room overnight and crushed the following day. 30% were left as whole berries. Cold maceration on the skins for 1 – 2 weeks after which fermentation takes place in open top fermenters. Punch downs are done every 4 hours to extract colour and flavour. When dry, the wine gets pressed and barreled down using only gravity flow. 23.6% of the wine was matured in American Oak barrels – 20% new, 30% 2nd fill, and 50% in 3rd fill older American and French Oak. Malolactic fermentation takes place in the barrel. The wine gets racked for the first time after 6 – 8 months – thus extended contact with lees. Fermentation by a variety of yeasts as well as wild ferments.
73.7% of the wine was aged on 30% new French Oak slim staves for 3 months.
The wine was bulk- and sterile filtered before bottling in February 2005.
Analysis: Alc:13.81 , RS: 4.11 , pH: 3.52 , TA: 6.32
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