Beaumont Bot River Jackals Pinotage 2022 NO20230816 Light and elegant peat notes

Light and elegant peat notes

nothing to cover up the fruit

flinty streak running under the citrus and stone fruit

grape brandy

and no new oak

Beaumont Bot River Jackals Pinotage 2022 NO20230816 Light and elegant peat notesPinotage has a reputation problem, too often big, jammy, and overworked, and Beaumont's 'Jackals River' bottling is the quiet rebuttal. In the cool, sea influenced hills of Bot River, the Beaumont family works old vines planted back in 1974, fermenting in open concrete and punching down gently so the wine never turns heavy handed. The result is a mid weight, focused South African red that shows what its signature grape can do when someone actually