Guillermo Pinotage

This is super food wine and pairs well with many deeply flavoured dishes. This wine does well with exotic flavours and we would happily push out the boat and serve it with dishes like Peking duck, sticky sweet and sour pork belly, braised beef shanks (Osso Bucco)with polenta and gremolata, wild mushroom risotto or Mexican style mole.

Jeremy and Emma Borg lead the small but determined Painted Wolf Wines pack. Each pack member is as unique as each African wild dog, contributing completely different talents, strengths and abilities. We strive to make a tangible and sustainable difference to the conservation of Painted Wolves (African wild dogs), other rare and endangered animals and the wild spaces in Southern Africa in which they live. We produce high quality wines with a distinctive South African feel. To that end our emphasis is on Chenin Blanc and Pinotage – the two benchmark South African grape varieties. We also work with other varieties, especially Shiraz and other Rhône grapes.

Certified organic grapes from the Kasteelsig vineyard which is owned by Billy Hughes. The site is primarily red Glenrosa soil with some Oakleaf - both shale rich duplex soils, and these vines are not irrigated. Yields are round 6.5 tons to the hectare. This fruit was supplemented by sustainably-farmed grapes from Leeuwenkuil’s top Swartland vineyards.

The wine matured in a mixture of French and American oak barrels for 14 months, 25% new wood.

The grapes were hand-picked into small baskets and taken to the cellar. After four days cold-soaking, approximately 60% was whole-bunch fermented in open bins and hand punched four times a day. The rest was fermented in stainless steel. No commercial yeast was used as these grapes ferment well with their natural yeast.