My Wine of The Month for July is Grangehurst Pinotage 2009. One might reasonably think I had aged this 14 year old wine in my cellar, but it...

My Wine of The Month for June is Kaapzicht Estate Rooiland Pinotage 2020. The retro label says it is 'a homage to classic Pinotage' ...

  My Wine of The Month for May is Beaumont 'Jackals River' 2018. It is light in colour, smelling of raspberries. It is also unusuall...

  My Wine of The Month for April is Beyerskloof Kriekbult Pinotage 2020.  Taking its name from the farm the vineyard is planted on, it comes...

  The Pinotage Food and Wine Festival this year on 13 May 2023 is a celebration of the 2023 harvest.  Tickets are now available from  Quicke...

  My Wine of the Month for February 2023 is KWV Cathedral Cellar  Pinotage 2019. It's a very drinkable clean bright fruity wine with a b...

Bruce Jack tells how an overheard conversation about a red variety called Bobal inspired him to make prizewinning Pinotage  He was in the Sp...

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...