Chenin & Pinotage
Timed Online Auction, 4 - 11 September 2023
Chenin & Pinotage
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About this Item
Often described as the South African equivalent of a Grand Cru or First Growth, Kanonkop Estate is situated on the Simonsberg mountain slopes on the outskirts of Stellenbosch. Owned by the fourth generation Krige family,
The Black Label was introduced as a limited-edition bottling with the 2006 vintage, cementing the team’s confidence in South Africa’s own red variety. Black Label is made from one of the oldest Pinotage vineyards in South Africa, one planted in 1953 on a site that has over the years proved to produce fruit of specific excellence and deemed special enough to be bottled under an own label.
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Critics Ratings
The 2012 Black Label Pinotage was the highest scoring wine in Tim Atkin MW's 2014 report on South African wines.
'This superlative example of the Cape’s very own red grape comes from a single vineyard of 60-year-old vines. There are only 1,500 bottles to go round, but what a wine it is. The texture is Pinot Noir like, but the flavours show notes of graphite and black fruits, with deftly integrated oak adding extra polish. Plush, silky and very complex. Drink: 2015-30' - Tim Atkin SA Wine Report 2014, 97 Points
'A wine of grandeur, authority. With its exotic yet pure dusky fruits, spice, finely toned muscle and composure. 2012 elevates the grape to a level beyond mere varietal character. All-new French oak seamlessly absorbed' - Platter's SA Wine Guide 2015, 5*
‘The aromatics on the 2012 show a more savoury, earthy, tilled earth character with elegant notes of red currant, earthy black plum and bramble berry sapidity. The palate shows hints of incense and waxy black fruits, sweet and sour tangy acids and a crisp vitality of black berry crunch. The tannins are elegant and fine grained and the palate texture sleek, polished and harmonious with chalky, grippy tannins lending structure and shape to the long, granitic finish. A slightly different vintage that expresses its own unique character.’ - Greg Sherwood MW, 96+/100 (Nov 2022)
'A decade on and this is just showing the first real hints of a savoury character. Again, slow to reveal its perfumed charms, but then delicate cigar box, undergrowth and redbush tea complexity alongside the red plum and darker brambles. The tannins are elegant and sinewy and there's a lingering pepper finish, but its the refreshing, flowing acidity that really makes this stand out.’ - Tina Gelie, Decanter, 94/100 (May 2022)
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