For October exceptionally I have chosen two Wines of the Month - one white and one red.
This month I celebrated a very significant birthday with a lunch
in a local restaurant to which all my relations and friends were invited. I
chose a restaurant that allowed corkage because I wanted to serve my choice of
wines – and the still wines would be – as you’d expect – Pinotage.
White was Enigma White Pinotage 2011 from Mellasat Vineyards in Paarl.
Mellasat made the first commercially available white Pinotage. It’s a most
impressive wine and had guests puzzled – most thought it French and assumed it
was a white Burgundy. The wine had wood aging with battonage and it’s complex
and rewarding.
The red was Kanonkop Estate Pinotage 2009. That year was one
of the best vintages for a decade and it offered dense mulberry and blackberry
flavours, yet I think with more time it will show even better than it is now.
The day was a great success and a considerable amount of wine
was consumed and new converts to Pinotage were made.
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