Comments on: This Cup of Pinotage Flows Over

By: Kwispedoor

Kwispedoor — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 09:21:37 +0000

I love Pinotage, but even Diemersfontein makes a better one (the Carpe Diem) than the “coffee” one. I’ve been to many chocolate & wine tastings, but I’ve yet to find even one instance where any combination of the two is better than the wine or chocolate on its own. I’m quite happy to be in the minority.

By: Johan

Johan — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 07:50:13 +0000

Pixel, Steve- quite right. It’s about personal choice and preference. Thsi si simply not a style of wine that I like. It has nothing to do with being the newest “in”- drink for newcomers to wine, and yuppie-labelflashers… how do you pare this with any food except chocolate, i a way that remains palatable?

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:34:57 +0000

Well, I beg to differ with the last 2 comments.

For me nothing is more pleasant than an evening with some friends flattening a bottle of Diemersfontein Pinotage whilst nibbling on some Lindt 80% chocolate. They co-operate so nicely!

By: Christo Volschenk

Christo Volschenk — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 09:05:11 +0000

Mmmm, the wine industry is a strange place.

It’s the only industry I can think of where you are praised when you reproduce yesterday’s tastes (products) perfectly and ridiculed when you produce (apparently quite legally) new tastes (products).

Or, would it have been OK when someone came up with a “coffee-flavored” Cabernet Sauvignon? In other words, are the old “vooroordele” against Pinotage at play here again?

By: Pixel

Pixel — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 08:32:18 +0000

Just like any new invention it’ll be scorned by those that think they know it all and they’ll doom it to fail. I love the coffee flavours but then it’s all a matter of taste… clearly the pundits and purists have none.

By: Pixel

Pixel — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 08:28:28 +0000

I love the coffee flavours but then it’s all a matter of taste… clearly the pundits and purists have none.

By: Leon

Leon — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 06:41:08 +0000

My friends and I fell in love when we first tasted a Diemers, I think back in 2004, so we bought cases of it. Subsequently I decided to make my own garagiste Pinotage aiming for the coffee aromas and flavours. At first taste it was a huge success (just the right amount of oak wood chips were added). Unfortunately, now at bottling stage, most of the coffee flavour is gone.

By: Pieter de Klerk

Pieter de Klerk — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 12:44:29 +0000

Agreed, Johan. I don’t care if the masses are listening to the Backstreet Boys and the Spice Girls. Doesn’t make those bands better than Led Zeppelin or the Red Hot Chili Peppers. If Diemersfontein Pinotage was R35 a bottle I might even have bought the odd bottle, but the price is WAY out!

By: Johan

Johan — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 07:07:40 +0000

Yaaa right… Paris Hilton also makes it onto the “most popular three” list- but that doesn’t mean I want to sleep with her!