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Mooiplaas The Bean Coffee Pinotage 2009

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Producer:
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Mooiplaas
Country:
South Africa (Южна Африка) 
Region:
Stellenbosch
Vintage:
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2009
Variety:
Pinotage (Пинотаж)
€ 10.23  
Added by Verena
30 Oct 2010

Winemaker's notes:
Dark purple colour, nose shows mocha and roasted coffee bean flavours, a lot of tannins in the wine, but fine silky tannins very well integrated with oak, palate is mouth filling with a long and concentrated feeling. Once tasted, this is a wine not easily forgotten.

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How to drink it
Food: Carpaccio (Beef), Chicken, Chicken Smoked, Duck, Ham, Hamburger, Lamb (Grilled, Broiled), Pasta with Vegetables, Pheasant, Pizza, Quail, Rabbit, Steak (Grilled, Broiled), Swordfish, Thai, Tuna, Venison, Риба, суши, сашими, зеленчукови ястия
Cheese: -
Temperature: 16-18 °C
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From the Reading Room
Let's say a grape variety normally takes 120 days to ripen. In an especially hot year, it may ripen after only 110 days; in a cooler year, after 130 days. Viticulturists generally do want a long growing seasons. Long ripening allows components in the grape other that sugar - tannins, for example - ...
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Comments & Ratings
1Verena
30 Oct 2010
87
Прекрасно, с меки танини и добър финал вино. Експлозия от аромати, включващи печено кафе и мока. Нестандартно вино.
2Anonymous
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26 Nov 2012		 

Това вино непременно трябва да се опита!
3Anonymous
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22 Jun 2018