Best-known for making cool-climate Chardonnay and Pinot Noir, Anthony Hamilton Russell is also an evangelist for Pinotage – or rather Pinotage of a certain kind. But transforming the reputation of South Africa’s emblematic grape variety is no easy task, as Richard Woodard discovers.
Shana Clarke has seen her fair share ofvineyards. She has scaled Spanish Peaks in Priorat, explored mountainous Mendoza, Argentina, and strolled through sun-soaked Arizona wineries. Many of these trips she