Flagstone Longitude Dry Red 2009

Juicy, ripe plum and red berry flavours are the essence of this wine, but the spicy undertones and fresh mint aromas give a structured dimension which can only be achieved through the complex blending of these three grape varieties. This is a smooth, medium-bodied wine that will go perfectly with game, casseroles and other red meat dishes.

Our ancient soils and equable, warm climate happily conspire to grow soft-structured, juicy red wines that taste different from the rest of the world. The essence of our Longitude is painstaking blending, always with Pinotage as a component. We want to accentuate a unique South African combination of accessibility and complex diversity. Longitude must taste juicy and fruity. It must feel soft, but have intriguing, lingering tannins and flavour, and it must offer unbeatable value for money. The building depicted on the front label is the Time Ball Tower, which stands above our barrel maturation tunnel. In olden times every ship’s captain kept a beady eye on the ball, which used to drop down the mast at exactly noon every day. He could then check the accuracy of his chronometer and be able to calculate longitude more accurately at sea.