Angus Paul Pinotage 'Mesas' 2023 750ml

SOUTH AFRICA : WESTERN CAPE : STELLENBOSCH

NATURAL : Pinotage

LIGHT-BODIED, BRIGHT RED FRUIT, GUM DROPS, SPICE, NEUTRAL OAK

Angus Paul is Edinburgh-born and Stellenbosch-trained, working from cellar space at Karibib Estate. Mésas — Portuguese for "table," also the flat-topped formations found across arid landscapes — is his Pinotage, made in a style closer to Gamay than to the extracted, smoky versions of the variety that earned the grape its complicated reputation.

Whole bunches into closed vessels for semi-carbonic fermentation, then pressed to old wood for 10 months with no racking — spontaneous malolactic, minimal addition, first sulfur in autumn. 12.54% ABV, 1.5 g/L RS. Serve chilled.

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