Southern Right Pinotage 2023 Ale making it one of the

making it one of the most historically rooted varieties in Piedmont

decided to replant 160 hectares in Valdizarbe and revive a winemaking tradition that had nearly disappeared under 20th-century industrialization and depressed grape prices

with the finished wine expressing the character of the appellation rather than a single hillside

Score references: James Suckling 99–100

Its bright acidity and soft tannins mean it works as easily on its own as it does with food

Southern Right Pinotage 2023 Ale making it one of theThe Land Pinotage is South Africa's own grape, a crossing of Pinot Noir and Cinsault, and it has a reputation problem: made carelessly it can taste of burnt rubber and paint. Southern Right exists to prove the opposite. The winery sits in the cool, wind scoured Hemel en Aarde Valley near Hermanus, just a few kilometers from the Atlantic at Walker Bay, on some of the oldest, stoniest, clay rich shale soils in the Cape. Anthony Hamilton Russell's bet