Primo Pinotage

Pair with Seared beef steak and a porcini mushroom sauce.

First and foremost Fairview is a working farm housing a collection of micro-businesses all sharing in a common goal – to create artisanal and sustainable produce with a focus on fine wine and cheese. We’ve been caring custodians of our land since 1693 and invite you to come and visit us and see for yourself how our farm operates supports the environment and contributes to a more holistic lifestyle. Everything we do is driven by our philosophy of being honest honouring our heritage and ensuring that ingenuity perpetually flows from our soils and cellars and straight into the heart of your relationship with us. After all at Fairview we do things differently.

Our Primo Pinotage is produced from a single block of bush vines located on the Fairview farm. The vineyards were planted in 1998 with 1.2m spacing between each vine. The vines grow under dryland conditions in deep duplex soils (well drained sand and clay), with a laterite subsoil that offers high water retention capacity. The vines are carefully suckered in summer (removing unnecessary shoots) and the crop is reduced to only one or two bunches per shoot, depending on the vigour of each vine. This results in a balanced crop, achieving rich concentration of flavours and texture in the wine.

Once alcoholic fermentation was completed, the wine was basket pressed and transferred to French oak barrels for malolactic fermentation, with 30% of the barrels being new oak. In total, the wine spent 18 months maturing in oak barrels.

The grapes were hand-harvested at an average of 24.0° brix then destemmed and hand-sorted to remove raisins and green stems. Fermentation took place in opentop French oak fermenters (foudre) and manual punch downs (pigeage) were done up to three times a day.