Pinotage Wines

Pinotage is not something we see much of in Australia and something we see even less of is South African wine, so a double whammy here and a great example from the Winery of Good Hope. The fruit for this wine comes from 30-year-old vines in the St...

Very spicy/earthy nose and complex toasty/earthy/herbal palate with a peppery element.

Very spicy/earthy nose and complex toasty/earthy/herbal palate with a peppery element.

This wine offers raspberry and ripe peach and black cherry flavours with subtle oak nuances, a warm palate and delicate lingering finish.

Darkish Burgundian purple. Spicy wood notes against rich plum and berry fruit, with typical restrained ‘fynbos’ aromatic notes. Dry, soft fruit-encased tannins follow spicy/fruit-sweet entry, understated and balanced, medium-bodied with a nice spi...

I wonder whether anyone in South Africa has made a co-fermented wild yeast blend such as this? The colour is light but bright, the red fruit flavours with notes of spice, the tannins superfine. Fascinating.

Grown in the Far North, this is a generous, brambly, nutty, slightly herbal and leathery red with a slightly grippy finish. Drink now onwards.

This Pinotage has aromas of red and black summer berries and exotic spice. It has focused ripe berry, creamy spice and vanilla flavours, and a long silky finish. Kumkani Awards & Accolades Concours Mondial de Bruxelles Decanter World Wine Awa...

Light to medium red; light, spicy fruit with sweet, jammy aromas is followed by a light, very spicy palate, finishing with slightly sharp acidity.

By handling the grapes and the ferment as we did, we were able to focus all of the good aspects of Pinotage’s heritage into the bottle (cherry fruit related to Pinot, spiciness related to cinsault) and avoid all of those that have so often made Pi...