Pinotage Club Pinotage Winery List

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Calitzorp Winery	Klein Karoo
tasting notes welcomed
Cape	Western Cape
Unimaginatively named own label brand for UK ASDA superstores.
Very thick dark garnet colour, powerful plum nose and spicy damson plum flavours in this enjoyable drinking wine. (1999 tasted 12/99)
Cape Afrika	Cape
Own label brand for UK Co-op stores
tasting notes welcomed
Cape Bay	Hermanus
Cape Bay Wines, based in Hermanus, owned by Dave Johnson CWM operates three labels. This on eis teh basic, then there's Sandown Bay and top of the range Newton Johnson.
2001Fruit comes from Worcester and Stellenbosch and made under Dave's supervision in local co-operative. Unoaked, bright pale red, clean taste, pleasant but rather neutral. (PFM 05/2002)
Cape Colours	Franschoek
Label of wholesaler Ashwood Wines
tasting reports welcomed
Cape Country	Cape
Label of KWV for export
tasting reports welcomed
Cape Levant	Cape
Label of Sonop Winery in Paarl
tasting reports welcomed
Cape Pinotage	Cape
Label of UK Co-op stores. The source varies; 2002 vintage is WO Breede River Valley, 2001 was from Stellenbosch. Its worth noting the back label contains a list of ingredients used in making the wine.
2002 - pleasant ordinary Pinotage, rather old fashioned style, with leather and dark chocolate flavours. (6/04 PFM)
Cape Promise	Cape
Label of Waverly Vintners in UK, label says made by Helderburg Cellars and bottled by Stellenbosch Wines
2002 - Light bright purple colour, tannic but somewhat lacking in body and depth of flavour. 14% alc(PFM 10/2002) 2001 - Very bright extracted red colour, bright and light in the mouth, red cherries, some tannins and acid. A light frivolous wine. Good (PFM 05/2002)
Cape River Isle	Breede River
tasting notes welcomed
Cape Soleil	Coastal Region
Label of Sonop Winery in Paarl. Organically grown
Light bright colour, fresh nose, light fruity forward violets. Delicious balanced violet and wild strawberry flavours (1998 tasted 12/99)
Cape Salute	Stellenbosch
tasting reports welcomed
Carana Cellars	Western Cape
2001 - Blacky red, soft war, rounded with light esters. 13.5% alc (PFM 10/02)
Cathedral Cellar	Paarl
KWV premier export label. The 1996 was a winner in the Pinotage Association Top 10 Pinotage competition 1998
tasting reports welcomed
Cederberg Kelders	Cederberg
Tasting reports welcomed
Chamonix	Franschhoek
2001 Bright inky red, appealing very soft fruity front palate, refreshing acids, some stalky greeness on back palate. (PFM 02/2003)
Chapel Cellars	Paarl
See Zanddrift Winery
Cheetah Valley	Franschhoek
Winemaker Nico Vermuelen selects grapes throughout the Cape and individually blends them to attain the exact qualities each varietal demands.
Tasting reports welcomed
Chiwara	Stellenbosch
Own label brand for UK Spar stores, made by UK based International Wine Services, supervised by chief winemaker Kym Milne.
2001 - Incredibly dark opaque almost totally black colour. The mouthfill was much more complex that I expected from a cornershop own-label brand, redolant of dark chocolate, mulberries and black leaf tea with an uplift of pepper spice. Noticeable acidity and dry leather on the aftertaste, maybe it spent a little too long on grape skins. It demands food and packs a hefty 14.5% alcohol. This is an excellent wine of a quality I didn't expect, punching well above its weight as a Spar own (really naff) label. Excellent. (PFM 05/2002)
Church Road	Hawkes Bay New Zealand
Church Road Cuve Series Pinotage 2000 - seriously dark and meaty wine with ripe berry fruit. It is sold only at the Church Road Winery's cellar door in Church Road, Hawkes Bay. (Note the spelling of Cuve has only one 'e' - this is in reference to the huge oak cuves that they use). (Sue Courtney Apr/02)
Cilmor	Cape
Label of Sonop Winery
tasting reports welcomed
Clear Mountain	Cape
Label of UK importer Hazeley Wines mainly for restaurant trade.
Tasting reports welcomed
Cloof	Groenekloof
2001 - Deep black colour, refreshing sweet cherry and plum flavours underpinned by tobacco leaf. Very Good 15% alc (PFM 10/02) 2000 - From two vineyards, planted in 1976 and 1986 on lowland slopes with high gravel content. Matured 14 months in 80% new, 20% second fill French oaks. 4,500 cases made. Dark black with purple rim, restrained nose, muted warm fruits, damson plum, some tobacco with integrated oak, some grip. Very approachable. Excellent
Clos Malverne	Stellenbosch
Winery concentrating on pinotage, and making excellent wine.
2000 Reserve - Warm plums and tobacco in this delighful wine that shows new facets as you drink it 14% alc (PFM 10/02) 1996 - One of the delights of Pinotage is that each winery makes its own style. Some make light fruity wines in the style of Beaujolais, others dense heavy wines like Hermitage. For this Clos Malverne Pinotage think claret. Think of a young classed growth - say Ch Mouton Baron Phillipe. It is a restrained, well structured classic wine. Fruit balanced by tannin. This is classy dinner party wine at a half the price of a comparable bordeaux. (PFM 3/98) 1996 - "Deeply coloured modern style Pinotage showing the classic Pinotage flavours of wild strawberry and banana. Sweet juicy and richly concentrated." ( Tim Atkin - The Observer 18 Jan 1998)
Clos Malverne	Stellenbosch
Winery concentrating on pinotage, and making excellent wine.
Clos Malverne also make a a basket pressed Pinotage, with grapes hand harvested from 30 year old vines and pressed in basket presses, a tradition dating back 300 years. Matured 12 months in French and American oak casks, the wine is unfiltered.
Culemborg	Western Cape
Pleasant well balanced wine, but nothing special.
Cullinan View	Breede River Valley
This is the most expensive wine on the Norwich Post House wine list, and what a disappointment. Rather thin , pale colour, lacking on nose and flavour, rather tired, OK for a house wine but overpriced here. At first we thought it over old, but it was 1997 vintage, so we wondered if the wine had been improperly kept.

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