Red · 100% Pinotage (1978 vines)
Krans Old-Vine Pinotage
Vintage 2021
Bush-vine Pinotage the old way: small basket press, no rush.
Pinotage gets a bad reputation from people who have only tasted the bad ones. This is not one of them. Made from forty-five-year-old dry-farmed bush vines on the cool eastern slope, picked at moderate ripeness, fermented in small open-top tanks with manual punch-downs.
Basket pressed, transferred to old 300-litre French oak, aged eighteen months. Bottled unfined and unfiltered. This is a Pinotage that wants twenty minutes in the glass.
Tasting notes
Black plum, smoked paprika, dried fynbos, a touch of leather. Fine-grained tannins, savoury, the kind that opens up with food.
Technical sheet
- Alcohol
- 14.0%
- Residual sugar
- 2.7 g/L
- Total acidity
- 5.8 g/L
- pH
- 3.55
- Oak
- 18 months, 300L French oak, 25% new
- Production
- 4,100 bottles
- Ageing potential
- Drink now to 2032
- Closure
- Natural cork
What to drink it with
Slow-cooked karoo lamb. Springbok carpaccio. A rare hamburger and a hand-cut chip.
What people have said
- Platter's 4.5 stars (2024)
- Absa Top 10 Pinotage finalist, 2023
- Tim Atkin MW: 92 points
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