Secrets of SA Pinot

Forget about “heartbreak grape.”  The real secret of SA Pinot is hair as the leading father-and-son SA Pinot winemakers Peter and Peter-Allan Finlayson (below) confirmed at Anysbos on Saturday night.

Peter and Peter-Allan Finlayson

Meanwhile the Old Mutual Toasty Show missed a trick when they invited, Anthony Rose, wine columnist at The Independent newspaper to judge this year.  They should have cut out the middleman and invited his boss, Evgeny Lebedev (below), proprietor of The Indy and a shareholder in The Grapes, a pub in Limehouse in the East End of London.