Bruce Jack Pinotage Malbec 2025

Description South Africa’s most distinctly local red grape meets Argentina’s most planted variety. A Breedekloof Valley blend that is spicy, fruit-forward and built for a wide table. The 2025 vintage is the leanest and most precise expression of this wine to date. Pinotage is a grape variety found nowhere else in the world at commercial scale. The Breedekloof Valley, where this wine’s fruit originates, is consistently identified as the region that produces the most decorated Pinotage in the country. The combination of warm days, cool nights and the valley’s specific soil profile produces Pinotage with more fruit intensity and less of the acetone and rubber characters that the variety is notorious for when grown on less suitable sites.The 30% Malbec cont ribution is not decorative. Malbec adds a plush, rounded quality to the mid-palate that softens Pinotage’s naturally grippy tannins and deepens the dark fruit character with blackberry and plum notes. The result is a blend that is more approachable than a single-varietal Pinotage and more aromatic and spiced than a straightforward Malbec. The 2025 vintage was picked earlier than prior years, a deliberate decision by Bruce Jack to manage ABV in light of revised duty frameworks. Bruce Jack confirmed in a January 2026 interview that Breedekloof Pinotage was among the standout wines he tasted from barrel that year. The ABV has dropped approximately one degree from the 14 to 14.5% of previous vintages. The result is a leaner, more precise wine with the same fruit intensity and a fresher finish. For buyers in Nairobi who want an approachable, food-ready red from a South African producer with 25 years of documented winemaking experience, this is the correct entry point into the Bruce Jack red range. Product Facts Vintage: 2025 Producer: Bruce Jack Wines Country: South Africa Region : Western Cape Grape Variety: 70% Pinotage, 30% Malbec Category: Red Wine Style: Medium to full bodied, fruit forward red blend ABV: 13.0–13.5% Production Method: Early morning harvest; destemmed and crushed on arrival; skin fermentation in open and closed tanks; pump overs for colour and body extraction; touch of oak for texture Farming Certification: Vegan; Sustainable Closure: Screwcap Serving Temperature: 16–18°C Drink: Best within 3–4 years of vintage About The Winery Bruce Jack grew up in Cape Town and earned a winemaking degree from the University of Adelaide in the early 1990s, returning to South Africa to found Flagstone Winery in 1998. Constellation Brands acquired Flagstone in 2008 while retaining Bruce Jack as winemaker. A role that included rebuilding the Kumala brand to 32.5 million bottles annually. He was named Winemaker of the Year by two separate South African organisations during this period. Bruce Jack Wines launched in 2018 and now sells in over 20 countries globally. With strong growth across Africa and Brazil. The Lifestyle Collection, which includes this Pinotage Malbec, is designed around varietal transparency at accessible price points. Red winemaking for the Lifestyle range is led by Schalk van der Merwe under Bruce Jack’s direction. The full range spans four tiers from the Lifestyle Collection to The Drift Estate wines, all sealed under screwcap.