Poetry Collection
Pinot Noir
Pinot Noir is like poetry in many ways. It can be so brilliant it changes the way you see the world and it can be really very bad. Pinot Noir is planted throughout the Western Cape, but in very small quantities, mostly because it has a mind of its own in the vineyard and cellar.
The Poetry Collection Pinot Noir is the collection of our very best barrel(s) every year. In some years we have chosen eight barrels for this honour, in some only one. Every year the bottle will carry, as its label, a poem written by a different poet. This poem is chosen by South Africa’s unofficial Poet Laureate, Stephen Watson. The subject is always Pinot Noir and the prize a few cases of this precious and rare wine.
We lavish an extraordinary amount of time, love and effort on Pinot Noir at Flagstone. We pick our vines, bunch by bunch, often leaving certain bunches on a single vine for a later pass through the vineyard. We will pick a vineyard over weeks if necessary, focusing on capturing rich and very ripe, site-specific aromas and flavours.
We want to use Pinot Noir as a vehicle for the sun-boosted concentration of flavour our individual vineyard meso-climates and soil types offer. We also try to ‘listen’ very carefully to the vineyards so that they can tell us when it is the perfect time to pick. We do this by tasting berries in the vineyards every day, sometimes twice a day, pushing the vines to ripen past the safety zone.
The Poetry Collection 2000
Tasting Description: Aromas to get your heart racing: cherry, plum, mocha coffee and dark chocolate. The palate is dense and concentrated with super soft, mouth-filling tannin. Flavours of sour cherry, ripe strawberry, cinnamon and dark chocolate combine to leave a lasting impression of substance and balance
Food Paring: Rooibos tea-smoked Parma ham wrapped guinea fowl on a bed of ricotta gnocchi and burnt sage butter.
Analysis: Alc 14.06% Ta 5.9 Ph 3.49
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