Simonne

Bright rose in colour with over-ripe berries on the nose. Palate is sharp; unripe berries come through greatly and it has very little depth to me. I found it quite bitter.

When paired with the Extra Creamy chocolate: A good pairing; it brings out the berries in the wine

Pieter

Fermentation aromas and slightly under ripe raspberries on the nose. The palate yielded mulberry like Pinotage fruit, tangy acid and a dry finish. The ample creaminess of the choc did a reciprocal dance with the acid in the wine, mellowing both the cream and acid, but I see fleeting fun here, rather than a long-term relationship.

David

The Pinotage Rose had little to offer the nose besides perhaps a faint underlying raspberry quality. On the palate the Rose is characterized by unripe cherries. When paired with the Lindt Extra Creamy I found that the chocolate completely overpowered what fruit there was in the wine.

Robyn

Lookout! It’s another ‘rotten strawberries’ rosè! It smelt like rotten strawberries, it was the colour of strawberry juice and it tasted sour with a hint of those dammed strawberries and a slight ‘boiled sweets’ finish.

All in all, this is not a rosè that I would buy, and I'm usually a fan.
The combination of this and the milk chocolate was something I did as quickly as I could, didn't like the choc, didn't like the wine, and didn’'t like them any better together. (Bang goes Robyn’s invite to the winery’s Christmas party then! - Ed)

Ellen

This combination was the surprise of the night for me. I don't like milk chocolate. I do like rosè, but really couldn't imagine the two together. The wine on its own, a pretty pale cherry red, has aromas of strawberry juice and sherbet dip, with other red berries hinted at as it warms. The palate however tastes unripe, more like sour cherries than sweet red berries. Although I like rosè, I've had better. However, paired with the milk chocolate (which I don't like, remember?), some chemical reaction takes place which makes each element instantly superior. I still don'trecommend wine with chocolate, but this is a really interesting phenomenon for those who like experimenting with taste sensations.