Our chief winemaker, Richard Rowe and viticulturist Unathi share their thoughts on the South African wine cultivar, Pinotage.

We recently visited the KWV Wines team and chatted to the wine team about the harvest to date, I have attached our video footage below for your enjoyment.

The harvest at KWV Wines started last week, so we nipped across to Paarl to catch some of the action. Along the way, we found KWV’s Viticulturist Unathi who shared some insights on the 2010 harvest.

We had a word with our viticulturists, Cobus and Unathi as well as Chief Winemaker, Richard Rowe about climate change and its effect on South African wines. This is what they had to say:

We’d like to introduce you to Unathi Montshongo, one of the KWV Viticulturists. Unathi is originally from Umtata, in the Eastern Cape, South Africa – but it was a few years later that her love affair with winemaking began at Stellenbosch University where she completed her B.Sc.Agric. with Oenology and Viticulture. She later furthered her education with an Honours in Viticulture and a Certificate in Business Communication.

We asked chief KWV Winemaker Richard Rowe, to show us how to open a bottle of bubbly correctly, turns out, it really isn’t too tricky.