Posted: December 2, 2021
This powerful, gutsy red is ready to roll. Estate-grown in the Far North, it was barrel-aged for 29 months. Fullish and fairly mature in colour, with a slightly rustic bouquet, it is mouthfilling and firm, with ripe, moderately concentrated, spicy,…
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Posted: April 8, 2020
Powerful, robust red (15% alc/vol), matured for 14 months in French oak barrels (20% new), and bottled unfined and unfiltered. Sturdy, sweet-fruited and firm, with berryish, spicy flavours, revealing excellent ripeness, complexity and depth. Certified organic. $65
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Posted: May 1, 2019
This powerful red was hand-harvested in Northland and matured for 29 months in French, Hungarian and American oak casks (30% new). Fullish and fairly youthful in colour, it is firm and mouthfilling, in a gutsy, slightly rustic style with ripe,…
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Posted: May 1, 2019
Popular in New Zealand several decades ago, pinotage is a South African cross of pinot noir with a heavy-cropping, more rustic variety, cinsaut. Hand-picked and French oak-aged for a year, this fragrant, full-bodied red is a top example, with full,…
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Posted: July 4, 2018
Pinotage can be a polarising grape but this is an attractive if very forceful style. Dried herbs, liquorice and smoked meats with some red berry, black cherry and plum. Plenty of tannin. A big dense chewy wine. $42.00
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Posted: June 9, 2017
Maturing well, this Northland red offers strong, plummy, slightly herbal and nutty flavours, with the rustic, earthy notes typical of pinotage, some savoury complexity and a smooth finish.
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Posted: June 9, 2017
Berries, plums and chocolate lift out the glass and the palate shows powerful ripe fruit flavours matched by big chewy tannins.
Comments Off on Aaldering Stellenbosch Pinotage 2011 / 0 View / June 9, 2017
Posted: June 9, 2017
A beauty! Dark chocolaty nose layered with plum and Maraschino cherries. Long and silky in the mouth; good concentration and persistence of vibrant licoricey flavours.
Comments Off on Spier 21 Gables Stellenbosch Pinotage 2012 / 0 View / June 9, 2017
Posted: June 9, 2017
This wine shows a deep developed colour, spicy/oatmeal aromas and a tight fresh palate with long lingering spicy fruit flavours.
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Posted: June 9, 2017
A big sweet lifted traditional style of pinotage with a complexity of raisin/prune like aromas and a long, silky smooth, confectionery palate.
Comments Off on Diemersfontein Carpe Diem Reserve Wellington Pinotage 2012 / 0 View / June 9, 2017
Posted: June 9, 2017
Leafy herbal bouquet with a spicy lift and simple but well made spicy/stalky palate.
Comments Off on Stellenrust Since 1928 Stellenbosch Pinotage 2013 / 0 View / June 9, 2017
Posted: June 9, 2017
Bright chocolaty nose and long slippery plum/mulberry palate with a long tannin backbone. 5+
Comments Off on Spier Signature Western Cape Pinotage 2013 / 0 View / June 9, 2017
Posted: June 9, 2017
Raisined fruit aromas – soft and charry in the mouth with rich fruit and tannin persistence
Comments Off on Zonnenbloem Stellenbosch Pinotage 2013 / 0 View / June 9, 2017
Posted: June 9, 2017
Elegant leafy/spicy aromas with slight meaty notes which is echoed on the austere palate.
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Posted: June 9, 2017
A soft juicy style of wine with a slight perfumed lift to the nose and lots of fleshy raspberry flavours on the mid-weight palate.
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Posted: April 20, 2017
This deeply coloured, generous red was hand-harvested from 25 year-old vines in Northland and oak-aged for a year. It has ripe, plummy, spicy, slightly gamey flavours, seasoned with sweet oak, in a soft, very drinkable style. $28
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Posted: April 20, 2017
From the Far North, this rich, ripe, slightly raisiny red has deep, moderately mature colour. Weighty and sweet-fruited, gamey and savoury, it’s drinking well now. $42
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Posted: April 4, 2017
Fruity nose shows some leathery age and the big bright and lifted palate is layered with black fruit and cedar oak.
Comments Off on Wilderkrans Barrel Select Reserve Bot River Pinotage 2013 / 0 View / April 4, 2017
Posted: April 4, 2017
Big rich ‘chewy’ style with ripe blue and black fruit characters and an elegant mintiness.
Comments Off on Nedeburg Wine master’s Reserve Western Cape Pinotage 2013 / 0 View / April 4, 2017
Posted: April 4, 2017
Smells a little like Sarsaparilla and has lovely length of flavour with focus more on the varietal fruit than the oak.
Comments Off on KWV Western Cape Pinotage 2014 / 0 View / April 4, 2017
Posted: April 4, 2017
Floral fragrance with light fruit notes. Soft and simple in the mouth with fleshy fruit flavours.
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