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Critics Ratings

'The 2015 Pinotage has a fragrant and floral bouquet, mainly red fruit, very pure and lifted with black plum and orange rind/marmalade scents. Iodine hints emerge with time. The palate is medium-bodied with a gentle grip. This Pinotage has wonderful balance and is lightly spiced. There's a little more structure than the 2006 with a precise and tensile, mocha-tinged finish. Very fine, if not quite the best that I’ve tasted.' - Neal Martin, Vinous, 91/100 (May 2023)

'Super-ripe blackcurrant fruit with elements of banana and mint. If that sounds weird, it is – but actually, it works well in context, and there is lovely richness without too much effort.' - Richard Hemming MW, JancisRobinson.com, 17/20 (Mar 2019)

'You’d expect this wine to be good in a stellar vintage like 2015, and so it is. Wonderfully heady and aromatic, with classic red berry flavours, fine-grained tannins, savoury tannins and the balance and length that are typical of Kanonkop’s reds. 2019-27' - Tim Atkin SA Wine Report 2017, 94/100

'A compelling nose of plums, cherries, earth, vanilla and spice while the palate possesses a great core of fruit, fresh acidity and firm tannins. Perhaps a slight bitterness on the finish but increasingly I think this taste, at least at low levels, goes towards complexity and is therefore something to be embraced. Delicious now, it nonetheless has all the structure to mature with benefit and deserves a place in any serious collector’s cellar.' - Christian Eedes Winemag.co.za, 93/100 (2017)