June 2020

The 2018 Guillermo Pinotage shows the concentration of the drought influenced vintage without any over ripe characters. The wine’s visuals offer an intriguing dark purple color with ruby edges leading into aromatics that showcase oak spice, a hint of vanillin and red and darker red fruit tones, reminding of cherry and plum. Medium fuller bodied the fruit has nice lift and juiciness to it with an enlivening vein of acidity running through the dark cherry and plum fruit flavors, giving this good freshness and pitch. The tannins, although soft and well integrated, compliment the fresh fruit flavors adding some structural support and firming up the back end, while the oak spice chimes in on the nicely detailed finish. Young and primary this should evolve nicely over the next year and drink beautifully for 3 more years after that.