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LONG MOUNTAIN MERLOT SHIRAZ

South Africa 2011

Tasting note This wine smells of cool cherry, earth, and graphite aromas. In the mouth the wine is explosively juicy with fantastic acidity and flavors of cherry, cedar and a mulberry-plum finish. Incredibly fine grained tannins play a powdery mist against the juiciness of the acidity while the fruit takes a floral, exotic turn through the exceptionally long finish.

Food match

Serving suggestion

This wine is great with a matured rib-eye steak, beef fillet or Lamb shank.

Producer

Long Mountain Winery

Producer information

The Long Mountain Wine Company takes it's name from the dramatic Langeberg (Long Mountain) range, which extends for over 200 kilometers along the edge of the Breede River Valley in the Western Cape region of South Africa.

Red wines get their colour from the skins which are included when the wines are fermented. The length of time that wines are in contact with the skins can influence the colour of the wine. The thickness of the grape’s skin can also affect the colour with thicker skinned varieties generally producing deeper coloured wines

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