Get to know:Painted Wolf, Guillermo Pinotage

Tasting Note

A beguiling wine with rich, spicy red berry and black cherry aromas, evident ripe tannins and a long, complex finish.

This wine drinks well in youth but will improve over time, gaining additional complexityfor at least six to eight years from vintage.

Producer Info

The grapes were hand-picked into small baskets and taken to the cellar. After four dayscold-soaking, approximately 30% was whole-bunch fermented in open bins and handpunched four times a day. The rest was fermented in a rototank. No commercial yeastwas used as these grapes ferment well with their natural yeast. The wine matured in amixture of French and American oak barrels for 18 months, 25% new wood.

Guillermo Pinotage is named afterPainted Wolf’s good friend Billy Guillermo Hughes. He wasamong the first investors intheir winemaking and conservation adventure, trading grapesfor shares in Painted Wolf. Billy is an uncompromising exponent of organic farming witha keen interest in biodynamics. Since 2013, Kasteelsig vineyard has been organically certified.