WBW #37 – Wine Blogging Wednesday #37: Pinotage rules!

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.  


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