Spice Route Pinotage - Spice Route Winery

The powerful Spice Route Pinotage from Spice Route Winery shines in the glass with a dense purple color. The nose of this Spice Route Winery red wine presents all sorts of blueberries, mulberries, plums, black currants and black cherries. As if that wasn't already impressive, oriental spices, cinnamon and cocoa bean join the mix due to the aging in small wooden barrels.

The Spice Route Winery Spice Route Pinotage presents itself wonderfully dry to the wine enthusiast. This red wine never appears coarse or meager, but round and smooth. On the tongue, this powerful red wine is characterized by an incredibly dense and fleshy texture. Due to the moderate fruit acidity, the Spice Route Pinotage flatters with a pleasing mouthfeel, without lacking juicy liveliness at the same time. In the finish, this youthful from the wine-growing region of the Western Cape finally inspires with considerable length. Hints of morello cherry and mulberry reappear. In the aftertaste, mineral notes of the soils dominated by clay and granite join in.

Vinification of the Spice Route Winery Spice Route Pinotage

The basis for the powerful Spice Route Pinotage from the Western Cape are grapes from the Pinotage grape variety. In the Western Cape, the vines that produce the grapes for this wine grow on soils of clay and granite. After harvesting, the grapes arrive at the winery by the fastest route. Here they are sorted and carefully crushed. Then fermentation takes place in concrete and small wood at controlled temperatures. After its end, the Spice Route Pinotage is aged for another 18 months in oak barriques.

Food recommendation for the Spice Route Pinotage from Spice Route Winery

Experience this red wine from South Africa best tempered at 15 - 18°C as an accompanying wine to leek tortilla, cabbage roulade or chickpea curry.

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