The mission for this edition of Wine Blogging Wednesday was to pick a wine from a region, made from a typical grape from that same region. Bonus points were promised for drinking this wine in it’s very own region of origin. I didn’t have the luck to find me in a wine region this month, and not even in the region where the wine’s made that I choose for this WBW-edition: South-Africa.

I know that you know what I’ve tasted, if I say ‘South-Africa’. Indeed, the pinotage-grape, ‘invented’ by Abraham Perold in 1925 when he crossed Pinot Noir with the Cinsault-grape (called Hermitage in South Africa). Pinot Noir… Hermitage… Pinotage, it’s easy as that, allthough they considered to call this grape Herminoir

This Tukulu 2001 is intense, intense in colour, in flavour and in odor. Think wood, toasty, smokey and a bit of blackcurrants in the nose. A bit of cherry and strawberry in the mouth. A full bodied, strong wine, rich in alcohol (14.5°) – to serve with rich dishes.