WORLD OF WINE: Hemel-en-Aarde Valley: It’s time to specialise in Pinot Noir By Roland Peens
The sixth annual Hemel-en-Aarde Pinot Noir Celebration has been one of the drivers of the recent South African fine wine revolution. Together with a handful of other weekend wine festivals, this collaborative marketing effort has helped define the landscape and offers the customer interaction with famous winemakers and emerging personalities.
The wines of Vosne-Romanée show the highest average score with 93 points, which is of little surprise. The village is the pearl of Burgundy, and Pinot Noir, as Grand Cru vineyards here will cost you upwards of €100-million per hectare. Hemel-en-Aarde, in fact, sits just behind Central Otago in New Zealand and the Ahr in Germany with an average 90.8 points. These two regions specialise in Pinot Noir and it quickly shows that Hemel-en-Aarde Pinot Noir is world class.
The most startling figure, however, is our tiny production. The Hemel-en-Aarde produces about 5-600,000 bottles of Pinot Noir, about as much as a Grand Châteaux on the left bank of Bordeaux. Oregon is 70 times larger, Central Otago 10 times, and even the up-and-coming Ahr is 3.5 times larger in production.
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