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- Noon Gun
- Free Run
- Heywood House
- Two Roads
- Semaphore
- Longitude
- Dragon Tree
- Dark Horse shiraz
- Writer’s Block
- Music Room
- The last Word Port
- Cabernet Merlot
- Chennin Blanc
- Backchat Blend
- Sauvingon Blanc
- Sauvingon Blanc res
- Crafted Red
- Syrah
- Pinot Noir
- Sauvignon Blanc
- Rose
- Merlot
- Green on Green
- Frostline Riesling
- Frostline Chardonnay
- Outsider Shiraz
- Mary Le Bow
- Sauvignon Blanc
- Cabernet Sauvignon
- Verjuice
 NEW RELEASES
- Wallflower
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BK5
Pinot Noir
We have a few strongly held views on Pinot Noir. For starterswe don’t believe Pinot Noir needs a cold, wet climate to produce great wine. Secondly, we like the BK5 selection – now uniquely South African. Thirdly, Pinot Noir grapes can talk.
All grapes talk to some degree, depending on how they have been treated, but Pinot Noir is the easiest to hear and the most difficult to understand. But, before we get too esoteric, this wine is only ever made from a single vineyard on the upper slopes of the Kuils River hills, called "The Mean Old Bastard Block". This is a grumpy vineyard, but when the weather is kind and we get a bit of rain at the right time, and when we’ve only asked The Mean Old Bastard for a few bunches per vine, this block can reveal a twinkling treasure
trove of succulent, sweet, decadent Pinot Noir berries.
It is the only tiny patch of Pinot Noir I know of with 5 different soil types. This means we have to hand-pick The MeanOld Bastard over about 3 weeks and in five different pickings to ensure optimum concentration and ripeness.
By the end of ‘Crush’ The Mean Old Bastard has yielded only about 13 small, precocious barrels of wine, which changes dramatically from vintage to vintage. Some years there is strawberry jam, ripe cherry and mocha, some years there is taciturn stewed plum and cloves.
Food Paring: Mother-in-law’s home baked turkey and
bacon pie.
Analysis: Alc 15.28% Ta 5.0 Ph 3.77
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