90ts Wine Advocate Aug 2011
The excellent 2009 Pinotage has a well-defined, attractive nose of blackberry, dark plum and some reductive tertiary aromas that dissipate with aeration. The palate has a sweet core of red berry fruit on the entry with the ebullience of an Italian Barbera. It has very good definition and a lovely fresh citrus finish. Excellent. 89 pts Wine Spectator 4/30/12
Quite ripe and fleshy, with layers of fig sauce, currant paste and roasted spice all kept honest by a racy graphite edge underneath. A touch firm on the finish, showing an overt tug of briar, but a solid, ambitious effort. Drink now through 2014.
