2015 Warwick Estate Pinotage Old Bush Vines

Community Tasting Notes (3) Avg Score: 87 points

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  4/17/2024 - Buff Tannen, USXFel Presidente Does not like this wine:

  Pretty sure braai was invented in 1925 to cover up the awful taste of pinotage, which I'd wisely avoided the past 10 years or so, but was unfortunately phished into purchasing by a $10 pricetag on a 9 year old rouge. The introductory scorched earth of creeping Charlie and thin, clinical pepper of monarda fistulosa have kindly receded on day 2, leaving chocolate, currants, hibiscus, rotting strawberry, and now mercifully discreet quantities of the standard pinotage elements we all know and loathe, but someday may forget when once again gifted the 'opportunity' to purchase this baby that should never have been born, though hopefully I'll have died before then
  I feel like this grape was hybridised to fulfill the prophecy of a brochure: respectable, semi-military font
  S O U T H A F R I C A
  then zesty, lavender, wsw-> ene font
  Naturally Synthetic
  
  The billowy texture admittedly glides to a stop like the world's most relaxed motorist
  
  Petit verdot, counoise, mazuelo, graciano, any of a billion Portuguese varieties, if South Africa really needs an Argentine or Uruguayan gimmick, any of these would probably be a better choice than this 99 year dead end
  
  Not reading all this crap? Please see the February 13th, 2007 note about the 2004

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  4/13/2020 - Lachello wrote:

  Mellow aromas of ripe cherries, cooked fruits and vanilla. This is a medium bodied wine with good structure and oodles of fruit-red cherries, redcurrants and raspberries with a chew finish. Medium oak, M7 D8

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  11/29/2017 - Juneaup wrote:

  Nose - Red cherries, cooked fruits, vanilla
  Taste - Raspberries, redcurrants
  Food - Magret de canard with tossed spinach served with raspberry sauce

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