Drink it now or cellar for up to 15 years. It is recommended to decant it for half an hour.
Located in the Tulbagh valley, northeast of Cape Town and 80 km from the Atlantic Ocean, the Rijk's winery was founded in the late nineties by Neville Dorrington together with his family. The estate, whose name honors Rijk Tulbagh, governor of Cape Town from 1751 to 1771, is located in a strategic position where it enjoys the protection of the Obiqua, Winterhoek, and Witzenberg mountains and a Mediterranean climate particularly favorable for the cultivation of high-quality grapes. The vineyards that extend on slopes facing north, south, east, and west, are planted on schist soils with Chenin Blanc and Pinotage grape varieties.
The Pinotage grapes are harvested by hand overnight to preserve their fragrance and freshness. After a short period of cold maceration and fermentation, the wine undergoes malolactic fermentation in barriques and is then aged again in barriques for 22 months.
Rijk's Private Cellar Pinotage is a wine with a complex and multifaceted aromatic profile with aromas of bramble fruit, such as blackberries, and other ripe red fruit, with mineral and spicy notes. On the palate, the wine is rich and round with a pleasant creaminess well balanced by the mineral notes of graphite. The tannins are velvety and the finish is long and elegant. Try it with game or ostrich meat served with fruit sauces.
Rijk's Private Cellar Pinotage 2020
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Rijk's Private Cellar Pinotage 2020
- 2020
- 750ml
- Red
- 14.5%
- Pinotage
- Pinotage
- Rijk's
- Western Cape
- South Africa
- Vintage: 2020
- Size: 750ml
- Type: Red
- Alcohol: 14.5%
- Varietal: Pinotage
- Grapes: Pinotage
- Winery: Rijk's
- Region: Western Cape
- Country: South Africa
- Vintage: 2020
- Size: 750ml
- Type: Red
- Alcohol: 14.5%
- Varietal: Pinotage
- Grapes: Pinotage
- Winery: Rijk's
- Region: Western Cape
- Country: South Africa
Buy Rijk's Private Cellar Pinotage 2020 750ml Red wine. This Pinotage wine is proudly 93 rated and produced by Rijk's winery from Western Cape, South Africa.
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Rijk's Private Cellar Pinotage 2020
overall i had a positive experience, they have a wide range of wines, some which are hard to find anywhere else - the main reason i still buy from them, plus the discounts are fair and often, but... their codes for the first offer only works at the first offer, which if fine, but then why would you send me the voucher in each package i order, why spam me on the email and every time i log in on the website? this is really bothering me... then their rewards points system is useless, first of all because you only get peanuts even after spending €250 on an order, but even those peanuts will expire if you won't order again soon, which is unfair, to say the least... and lastly, if you get a corked wine, a wine with any deffect or a wine that leaked (my last order contained a bottle of $100 Caymus Cabernet with a leaking cork, which made the wine tasted cooked and flat), they have no procedure put in place for you to replace or return the wine or to get a refund or replacement - none, which is a big no no no for any wine collector... so all in all i give it 3 stars for now