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Critics Ratings

'Bunch fermented (like AD & Freedom Pinots) & matured in older, larger barrels 10 months, 2015 has a floral & oak spice perfume, ripe cherry fruit, brisk acidity, firm but seamless tannins, a dry finish & great length.' - Platter's SA Wine Guide 2017, 4.5*

'A heady nose of red and black cherry, flowers, musk, earth and spice. The palate, meanwhile, displays great fruit concentration, zesty acidity and just the right amount of tannic tug on the finish. It's a sophisticated and accomplished take on the variety.' - Christian Eedes, Winemag.co.za, 93/100

'One of the most undersung achievements in South African wine this century could well be Radford Dale… and what is to my palate the most interesting and successful twin-focus of Radford Dale: chenin blanc and pinotage.' - Tim James, WineMag

'Radford Dale has clearly become fully committed to the grape, and is amongst the leaders of the small but important group of producers that are stressing the grape's connections to Burgundy and the south of France, rather than to the less appropriate model of Bordeaux which has dominated most Cape strivings with the grape.' - Tim James, WineMag

'One version of Pinotage that De Klerk makes under the Radford Dale label goes by the name of "Frankenstein" recalling novelist Mary Shelley's monster who becomes terrifying to its creator but is actually a composed, understated and totally appealing wine. He makes the compelling point that "new" Pinotage might not be that new at all, it recalling the extraordinarily long-lived wines of the 1970s which remain delicate, light and fresh to this day. "You could say we are reverting to our past - presentation of fruit which is pure and transparent.' - Christian Eedes, WineMag