TASTING NOTES

We first began producing our Copper Pot Pinot noir as a dedicated wine for our family’s hotel, Cleopatra Mountain Farmhouse, in the KZN Drakensberg. Since then the wine has taken on a life of its own and we feel very privileged to be able to work with this cultivar in one of South Africa’s best Pinot noir growing regions.

We love Pinot noir for its supple, delicate power and its ability to elegantly and honestly express its origins. We take to heart the challenge of producing a great wine from this exacting varietal and like so many other lovers of Pinot noir, you will often find a bottle on our table.

We vinify the wine as sympathetically as possible with wild yeasts, a percentage of whole cluster ferments and maturation in older oak barrels.

Our 2022 Pinot noir has a perfumed nose showing mulberries, cranberries, rosewater, and fine herbal tones. Tannins are fine while the palate is rich and complex, balancing savoury notes of wood spice mixed with plums, red currants and blood orange.