Video: Beeslaar Pinotage 2017 Stellenbosch, South Africa
This is one of South Africa’s most highly acclaimed Pinotages. It’s made by Abrie Beeslaar, who’s the cellarmaster at Kanonkop.
Wesbsite: http://www.beeslaar.co.za/
This wine is made in the typical Kanonkop way, in open fermenters a bit like Portuguese lagars. During the fermentation, it’s punched down every couple of hours (a fairly extractive regime), and then after it’s aged in mainly French oak, bit with a couple of American barrels thrown in. As such, this is a slightly old school approach, but the results are very good. Here, I taste the wine on camera and give my verdict.
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