Estate Collection Pinotage

Best served with red meat and hearty meals. The perfect braai wine.

The 2024/2025 season had a cold, wet winter, a cool spring with rainfall and sufficient soil moisture levels. This indicated a late start to the harvest season. We experienced less stress and no disease pressure in our vineyards. We had two hot days in December but the vineyards were resilient and showed no signs of heat stress. A warm ripening period ensued with greater diurnal shifts, resulting in a classic vintage that shows great promise of exceptional quality and ageability.

After fermentation had taken place, the wine was then pressed into 500-litre French oak barrels and concrete tanks, where it finished its malolactic conversion naturally. After 11 months, the wine was blended, filtered and bottled.

Dirty sandstone, juvenile greywacke. Batch-picked from a 1.6-hectare site. The vineyard’s changing slope, as well as stem ripeness, dictated the picking. Winemaking saw a mix of whole-bunch, whole-berry and destemmed fruit, fermented naturally with indigenous yeast in opentop tanks. The must was pumped over and punched down twice a day.

Hazendal is a heritage farm and wine estate in Stellenbosch. For more than three centuries Hazendal has been a widely recognised Cape Winelands landmark. Nestled in the Bottelary Hills, it has transitioned from a humble grain and livestock operation in the 17th century, into a notable wine producer and premium lifestyle estate. Today, Hazendal offers families, life adventurists and wine and food aficionados, a rare combination of culinary, cultural, educational and outdoor experiences.