Madame May-Eliane de Lencquesaing, owner of Glenelly Estate who previously owned   Bordeaux 2nd Growth estate Château Pichon Longueville ...

  My Wine of The Month for April is Stellenbosch Vineyards Bushvine Pinotage 2023, WO  Stellenbosch . It was pale and would have benefitted ...

  My Wine of The Month for March is Alvi's Drift '221' Pinotage 2022, WO Scherpenheuval.  It came about because I was wanting to...

  My Wine of The Month for February is Doran Vineyards Family Reserve Pinotage 2023, WO Voor-Paardeberg. It was in September 2016 that I ha...

 Beykush Winery in Ukraine has Pinotage. It's currently a component on its Artahia blend. According to Wineland magazine, 2,470 vines w...

  My Wine of The Month for January is a Cape Blend, Heron’s Nest Cabernet Sauvignon/Pinotage 2020, WO Western Cape. The label is coy; it doe...

  2025 is the 100th anniversary of the planting of the first Pinotage. In South Africa’s autumn, at the beginning of 1925, Professor Abraham...

  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 a...

My Wine of the Month for November is Stettyn Pinotage 2023 (WO Stettyn). I was alerted to this wine by Dan who’d had it with lunch at My Co...

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...

  Every year on the second Saturday of October, we celebrate Pinotage Day – a tribute to its journey from ancient soils to our tables, evol...

  My Wine of The Month for September is Mhudi Pinotage 2020, WO Coastal Region Time flies - it was in 2008 that I visited the Rangakas  at M...

Winners of the Pinotage Top 10, Cape Blend and Rose competitions 2024 are: Perold Absa Pinotage Top 10 Awards Winners Beeslaar Wines  - Bees...

  My Wine of The Month for July is Warwick ‘The First Lady’ Pinotage 2023, WO Western Cape.  ‘The First Lady’ name is a tribute by the curr...

  My Wine of The Month for May is  Stellenrust Pinotage 2021 and 2022. We had the 2021 vintage at our favourite Asian restaurant, Chez Mumt...

  My Wine of The Month for April is Cloof Inkspot 2019. The bottle is festooned with stickers but it seems they were awarded by only two org...

 My Wine of The Month for March is Bellevue '1953', vintage 2016. Bellevue are a Pinotage pioneer, making the wine that was the firs...

  My Wine of The Month for February is DeWaal 'Top of the Hill' Pinotage 2015. This is from the world's oldest Pinotage vineyard...

    My Wine of The Month for December is The Society’s South African Pinotage-Syrah 2023. This is made, labelled and bottled for UK’s Th...

  Pierre in 2019 I was deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Pierre Loubser, retired Manager of The Pinotage Association.  He had a bad...