My Wine of The Year 2024 has to be the one I’ve drunk most, which is Beyerskloof Pinotage 2021.
It’s bulk shipped and bottled in the UK and as it’s stocked in
Sainsbury’s supermarket and frequently discounted it’s easy and inexpensive to
buy. This year the 2021 vintage is still being sold in the UK, but in South
Africa in November we were drinking winery bottled 2022 vintage.
Beyersklooof
Pinotage is our go-to when we have a curry, and our eldest son is a huge fan.
Unfortunately we can no longer find the Reserve or Synergy Cape Blend, so white
label it is. The wine is an easy drinker and true to the variety, with good balance and
bags of fruity flavours.
In
total I’ve opened 77 varietal Pinotages this year and 11 Cape Blends.
(The British label says it’s made by Beyers Truter and his team, but the winery bottled 2021 (below) makes it clear on the front label that Beyer’s son, Anri, is now the winemaker.)
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