My Wine of the Month for December 2022 is L’Avenir Estate Single Block 02 Pinotage 2015.  I t is a registered Single Vineyard  Estate Wine ...

My Wine of The Month for November is Sutter Ridge 1996.    When I visited this winery in Amador County long ago it was growing 25 acres of P...

 Platter's South African Wine Guide has announced its 5 Star wine for the 2023 Guide. Pinoate 5Stars are: Beeslaar 2020 De Grendel Amand...

Pat Del-Gatto Very sad news from Ontario. Pat Del-Gatto winemaker/owner of Del-Gatto Estates passed away on 15 Sept 2022 from complications ...

  My Wine of The Month for October is De Grendel Amandelboord Pinotage 2019 (Estate Wine of Origin Durbanville). This is a most enjoyable n...

  Which Pinotage shall I open? Which Pinotage will you open?

“It was never the grape’s fault,” Beyerskloof winemaker Anri Truter says of the historical perception of Pinotage in the UK.  This is the fi...

My Wine of The Month for September is  2020 False Bay Pinotage  The Last of the First  Schapenberg Single Vineyard   (W.O. Stellenbosch) Thi...

2022 Absa Top 10 Pinotage Winners (130 entries) Beeslaar Pinotage 2020 Stellenbosch Abrie Beeslaar Beyerskloof Winemakers Reserve P...

  My Wine of the Month for July 2022 is 2017 Laibach Pinotage  Every time, and there weren’t many, that I’ve had Laibach before it’s been bo...

 In June 2018 the first commercial Pinotage vineyard was planted in England, see here . Now the first Pinotage wine has been produced from t...

My Wine of The Month for May is 2007 Fort Ross Pinotage Fort Ross Vineyard (California, Sonoma Coast) The cork split and my Butlers’ Friend ...

  My Wine of The Month for April is Durbanville Hills Pinotage 2018 The Promenade Collectors Reserve . The wine was closed with a DIAM, prin...

My Wine of The Month for March is Abraham and the Heretics Pinotage 2018. I first came across this wine in 2015 at a tasting, but this year...

  I've enjoyed several Pinotage this month that were candidates for Wine of the Month, most notably a stunning Spier 21 Gables 2016, but...

Matthew Nugent in The Irish Sun says "I’m a wine expert and these are the top ten wines to treat yourself and a loved one to this Vale...

My Wine of the Month for January is - Robertson Winery ‘Longbeach’ Pinotage 2020. I assume Longbeach is the importers own on-trade label, ...

  My Wine of the Month for December – and indeed my Wine of the Year for 2021 is Beyerskloof Pinotage 2019.   This is their entry level ...

  My Wine of the Month for November is  De Waal Pinotage 2018. DeWaal have the world's oldest Pinotage vineyard from which they bottle ...

Matthew Jukes writing in MoneyWeek says of Beeslaar Pinotage 2018  Beeslaar has nothing but pristine, gloriously appointed, velvety fruit –...