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• Paul S wrote: 80 points

  May 23, 2012 - WXTP Tasting II (Beautiful Wines, The Plaza): Wow - this was just absolutely mediocre, made all the worse by the fact that it came just before a very polished, well-made Kanonkop Pinotage. It was only saved from being the dud of the night by the fact that it was not flawed or faulty wine-making that made it bad, and also by virtue of a very awkward Fruhburgunder coming later on in the light. The nose was extremely sweet, with stewed cherries and raspberry ripple aromas and some floral essence spiked with a whiff of burnt rubber. Most of the young South African reds have somehow shed the burnt rubber thing over the past few years, but this wine seemed to have missed the boat completely, with the whiffs on the nose being amplified so much on the palate that the wine was almost rendered it undrinkable. Only with a lot of swirling and some concentration did the curtain of smoky rubber part to show a sweet layer of black fruit and some spice that barely surfaced until the finish. To add insult to injury, the acidity stuck out a bit awkwardly too. I am not sanguine about the aging potential of this wine. As the next wine in the series showed, it is not impossible to make good, or at least decent Pinotage in the Western Cape - I just wished that this was not so mediocre.

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• Vintage 2011
• Type Red
• Producer Culemborg (DGB)
• Varietal Pinotage
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• Country South Africa
• Region Western Cape
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