This was a winner in 2004 Top 10 Competition. I had several bottles which I've been drinking over the past year and have been very plea...

How time flies. Last year I was one of the judges of the annual Pinotage Top 10 2005 competition. This years judges were Guido Francque (fo...

The Washington Post picked Fairview's Pinotage as its wine of the week on 11 October 2005. Paul Lukacs said "This young pinotage c...

Every one who tastes Diemersfontein's Pinotage remarks on its incredible dense coffee and chocolate flavours. Of course, there isn'...

Zakkie Bester (pictured right with Mareli Viljoen ) is winemaker at Riebeek Cellars, a co-operative that has the good luck to be situat...

Intense dark garnet/purple colour. My first impression is of smokey bacon over ripe damsons and black cherries. There's a complexity of...

After fermenting red grapes the new wine is pressed from the grape skins which are usually recycled back to the vineyards as fertiliser. But...

This is me last week picking the very first Pinotage grapes harvested in Ontario, Canada. I was at Fieldmouse Vineyards , owned by Peter an...

Welcome to the Pinotage Club blog This blog is a more up to date method of communicating than the infrequent news-letter.

Ashbourne 2001, the maiden vintage, was rated 92/100 by Steve Tanzer in his influential US publication - the International Wine Cellar. He d...

Karikari Estate Pinotage 04 won Gold and ‘Best in its Class’ at the recent Bragato Wine Awards held in Gisborne. Karikari Estate also won G...

Beaumont dedicated their 2005 vintage to Hope Marguerite Beaumont "who has been an inspirational figure for us all and is the namesake ...

A survey of more than 500 customers of the UK pub restaurant chain Chef & Brewer showed that over half ask for Chardonnay or a house wi...

The fruit for California's Domaine St Gregory from Perry Lloyd's vineyard. I asked Perry how he came to plant Pinotage. "When I...

Jacobsdal Estate 2001 - Other wineries have been redesigning their labels, getting new names and changing winemakers, but at Jacobsdal fat...

Diemersfontein 's Carpe Diem 2003 Pinotage won the 2005 International Wine Challange Trophy for South Africa's Best Red Wine. At the...

Tamara Lover at www.gothamist.com asks "How could you ever improve on Pinot?" and acknowledges that maybe you can't but that...

Don't ask for Pinotage - or other wines - from Bellevue, Erica, Uiterwyk or Vlottenburg. All have changed the name on their labels. Bell...

Professor Keiran Molloy at the University of Bath organised a Pinotage tasting for the University Staff Wine Society. He writes " Thank...

Melissa Dicent has been travelling the USA in "The African Queen" tour bus promoting South Africa wines for importer Hemingway and...