Saturday's Child Pinotage

This would be best enjoyed with a rare Bavette steak, twice cooked fries and a green pepper corn sauce.

This Pinotage comes from the OG of cool climates, Stanford. The fruit was picked at 22.5 Brix by hand and chilled overnight before sorting.

The wine was then racked to old french oak barrels for maturation and malo lactic fermentation. This wine was gently filtered before bottling. Only two barrels were made.

The grapes were rigourously sorted by hand at bunch level before destemming 85% of this fruit to open top fermenters. 15% of this fruit remained whole bunch. The grapes were foot stomped and then punched down gently 3 times per day, for 7 days, before being pressed off to tank.

McFarlane Wines was born while sharing dreams and desires one evening over dinner, sometime in 2018. A dream to have something family-owned and operated, and a deep desire to honour some of South Africa’s heritage varieties. South Africa’s vinous history is a unique one, and certain varieties have had a significant influence in shaping where the South African wine industry is today. McFarlane Wines aims to produce fine, honest wines from these varieties and share what we love about them with the world.