This year’s Pinot Noir Report sponsored by multinational financial services company Prescient attracted 28 entries received from 20 producers and these were tasted blind (labels out of sight) by a three-person panel, scoring done according to the 100-point quality scale.
The Top 10 emerged as follows:
94
Bosman Upper Hemel en Aarde 2020
93
De Grendel Op Die Berg 2019
Iona Kroon 2018
92
David Finlayson Camino Africana 2019
Jayne's 2019
La Vierge Apogée 2016
Paul Cluver Village 2019
Catherine Marshall Pinot Noir on Sandstone Soils 2019
91
Catherine Marshall Pinot Noir on Clay Soils 2020
Shannon Rockview Ridge 2019
“As we all know, Pinot Noir is a notoriously difficult grape to work with and plantings of this variety remain small in South Africa – it makes up just 1.3% of the national vineyard,” says Christian Eedes, chairman of the tasting panel and Winemag.co.za editor. “That said, there are a few dogged producers who have always been determined to make the variety work under local conditions and their efforts finally seem to be paying off”.
To read the report in full, including key findings, tasting notes for the top wines and scores on the 100-point quality scale for all wines entered, visit Winemag.co.za.
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Wines are available for online purchase via boutique wine retailer Dry Dock Liquors alternatively a mixed six-pack of the Top 10 via Wine of The Month Club.
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