My Wine of the Month for October is the KWV Mentors Pinotage 2020 (WO Stellenbosch) that I opened on Pinotage Day earlier this month.
It's a big brooding beast in a heavy statement bottle. The back label says 'Can be enjoyed now, but will benefit for aging for a further five years' which is fairly meaningless as it doesn't say when the five years starts from. Is it the vintage year, as it says further aging? Is from the bottling date although they don't say when that is? Is it when one buys it, or when one opens it? Who knows?
I opened it four and a half years since the grapes were picked and I should have kept it longer, as it was closed - keeping it's promised glories tightly packed. Oh yes, it was enjoyable but for the feeling it would blossom with more age and that I'd opened it too soon.
