Me, Myself and Mwa

Wine Lover Extraordinaire and avid Wineland Traveller. I'm a student and spelunker of wine farms.

Saturday, March 29, 2008

Longing for Langverwacht

Hi,

The next farm on the list is Langverwacht. On a side note, I learnt in my wine tasting trip yesterday that there is a farm in Paarl - Ridgeback - whose farm name is also Langverwacht. Unfortunately it was a rather rushed visit for us (we didn't even take any photos).

We tasted 5 wines while we were there. The first was the Colombar (R16), which had some tropical summer fruits, especially a good whiff of guava and a crisp lemon finish - overall quite shy though. The chardonnay (R18) which was very lightly wooded, had a very fruity palate - with mango, paw-paw, peach, pear and custard apple sensations coming to the front - definitely a grape with some potential in it.

The Ruby Cabernet (R18) was our first red at the farm, and it had mulberry and raspberry jam bringing forward the fruits, as well as a light touch of cedar, cigar box and mocha to show some wood character. It also had a bit of pepperiness on the palate which made it a good wine to match with pizza. The Shiraz (R23) also had raspberry jam and stewed fruit smells, with filter coffee, black pepper and cloves on the tastebuds. Not my style of Shiraz, but decent value-for-money. The final wine wine we tasted was the Cab Sauv (R24) which also had that stewed fruits smell along with warm over-ripe black currants, cedar, mocha and a very plummy finish. Drink now, because it's not really worth keeping for long, but it might work as a quaffer with friends.

All-in-all, this farm appears to be primarily interested in keeping costs low while still keeping a good quality of lifestyle wine, and I certainly expect to find this wine drunk in student's digs around the Western Cape.

Cheers!
Val




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