Angus Paul Wines

Transient Lands Pinotage

Name: Diapsalmata Cinsault
Brand: Angus Paul Wines
Price: 400 ZAR
Availability: InStock
Rating: 93 (1 reviews)

Pinotage from Western Cape, South Africa

R350

Bottle size:

750 ml

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This vintage shows a fine balance of delicacy and power. The wine shows a slight cracked pepper character backed up by waves of dark red fruit: cherries, cranberry, crushed strawberries. The palate is equally fruit forward and primary, but complemented by the cracked pepper character, slight reduction and firm structure. Though Pinotage is born of two grapes known for delicacy, stylistically it is usually geared toward power. This bottling shows a more classic interpretation, one that required no manipulation or box-squeezing to achieve.

Cherry

Cranberry

Strawberry

Cracked Pepper

Grapes are hand picked and cooled overnight. They were then fermented in open-top bins. Of the grapes, 35% were foot trodden whole bunches, and the remainder destemmed. A light sulphur addition was made at crushing. Fermentation took place over 10 days after which a maceration was carried out until the tannins had developed satisfactorily. After draining, the remaining grapes were pressed to old wooden barrels. A spontaneous malolactic fermentation then took place, and in early Autumn wines were sulphured for the first time.

In 2021 the blend uses three fantastically farmed Pinotage blocks: one on the granitic Polkadraai Hills above Stellenbosch makes up 10% of the blend; another old vine block (1972 planted) on Helderberg, in Stellenbosch makes up 45% of the blend, also granitic soils; the last 45% of the blend is made up of grapes sourced from the Stanford Foothills far down the South Coast, employing cooler weather and sandstone derived soils.

Angus Paul Wines

The profoundest facet of wine, beyond its flavour, is when and where it can be utterly unique - otherwise all the wine in the world might as well come from a single factory in France (or Taiwan). Angus Paul Wines looks to identify that which makes South Africa unique; combining its old rocks, atavistic gees and quasi-indigenous varietals to produce wines that could only come from the windy Cape. Chenin blanc and Pinotage take the lead roles in the winery - along with a small but genuine supporting cast of other grapes - where they are left untampered to bear the transcription of the sunshine, soil and soul of the Western Cape.