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Online-Only Auction, 25 May - 1 June 2020

Wine

Sold for

ZAR 9 380
Lot 466
  • Kanonkop; Black Label Pinotage; 2012; 4 (1 x 4); 750ml


Lot Estimate
ZAR 10 000 - 12 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 9 380

About this Item

Black Label Pinotage, 2012
4 (1 x 4) 750ml

Often described as the South African equivalent of a Grand Cru or First Growth, Kanonkop Estate is situated on the Simonsberg mountain slopes on the outskirts of Stellenbosch. Owned by the fourth generation Krige family, Abri Beeslaar is their long-term winemaker who has won International Winemaker of the year an incredible 3 times.

The Black Label was introduced as a limited-edition bottling with the 2006 vintage, cementing the team’s confidence in South Africa’s own red variety. Black Label is made from one of the oldest Pinotage vineyards in South Africa, one planted in 1953 on a site that has over the years proved to produce fruit of specific excellence and deemed special enough to be bottled under an own label.

Notes

Due to time constraints set upon us with the COVID-19 Lockdown no original bottle shots were taken.

Critics Ratings

The 2012 Black Label Pinotage was the highest scoring wine in Tim Atkin MW's 2014 report on South African wines.

'This superlative example of the Cape’s very own red grape comes from a single vineyard of 60-year-old vines. There are only 1,500 bottles to go round, but what a wine it is. The texture is Pinot Noir like, but the flavours show notes of graphite and black fruits, with deftly integrated oak adding extra polish. Plush, silky and very complex. Drink: 2015-30' - Tim Atkin SA Wine Report 2014, 97 Points

'A wine of grandeur, authority. With its exotic yet pure dusky fruits, spice, finely toned muscle and composure. 2012 elevates the grape to a level beyond mere varietal character. All-new French oak seamlessly absorbed' - Platter's SA Wine Guide, 5*

Provenance

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