So much has been written about Pinotage and so many opinion shapers have em- braced it as the grape that defines South Africa’s wine industry. Since its creation in 1925, it has been fashioned as a red table wine intended to straddle the aromatic and flavor spectrums of Burgundy and the Rhone Valley. Signature wines of iconic status have been made with this grape, but very few producers have tried to make Rose from it. Ros Pinotage rosé is named after “Rosalind Kock” who in the early days of Painted Wolf, supplied grapes off her husband’s farm in Simondium, Paarl. She is also an accomplished artist, who drew the charming Painted Wolf puppy on the Ros label. When one thinks about Rose from Provence, it embodies very similar characteristics to this wine. A bright fruity (yet bone dry) wine with strawberry, cherry and cranberry flavors, a gentle underlying minerality and a zippy lingering finish.