Cape estate wines, allocated before the world asks for them.
PinoGrotto secures allocations from South Africa's finest estates and delivers them, traced bottle by bottle, to cellars ashore, aloft and at sea.
Who we work with
Yacht crews
Chief stews and captains plan the season with us, port by port, and we deliver to the berth.
Plan a seasonAircraft and residences
A cellar for the owner wherever they keep one, restocked before it runs low.
See a cellar aboardFamily offices
Allocations with a full record behind every bottle, reported the way you need.
See a bottle passportHotels and cruise lines
A standing cellar of Cape wines, secured across vintages for your list.
Discuss a standing cellarThis season's allocations
Each mark is one case, and the whole row is every case that exists. Dark marks are still available. Our estates are known by number and by the ground they grow in. Allocations open at release and close when every case is placed.
Allocated
We buy at release, directly from estates we never name in public. You get the wine, its full story and our guarantee. They keep their privacy, and you keep one trusted source.
Proven
Every bottle carries a passport: the ground, the harvest, export and handover, recorded from the estate to your cellar.
Delivered
Everything ships from the Cape, so we plan your season with you and deliver to the port, hangar or residence on the date you need it.
We don't do last minute. We do the whole season.
Tell us where the vessel will be and when. The Voyage Planner works back from each port to the Cape and shows the date to confirm every list, so the wine is waiting before the guests arrive.
Open the Voyage PlannerQuestions people ask first
What is PinoGrotto?
PinoGrotto is an allocation and export merchant for South African estate wines. We secure wines at release, directly from estates, and deliver them with full provenance to yachts, private aircraft, residences, hotels and cruise lines internationally.
Why don't you name your estates?
Our estates prefer privacy, so we show each one by number and by the soil its vines grow in. Every estate is a registered South African producer, and your advisors can confirm identities privately, under confidentiality, before you buy.
How far ahead should a yacht order?
Everything ships from South Africa, so plan by port. Allow about three weeks before each arrival. The Voyage Planner shows the exact date to confirm each list.
Where do you deliver?
To ports, private aviation terminals, residences, hotels and cruise lines internationally, shipped from the Cape. Duty and customs for each destination are confirmed with you before shipping.
How do I know a bottle is genuine?
Every case travels under a numbered tamper-evident seal with its own temperature logger, and carries a tag that opens its passport: the estate's ground, packing, landing, release and handover, with the temperature range it saw on the way.
How do I start?
Request an introduction or email terrilyn@pinogrotto.com. Your Allocation Steward replies personally within one working day.
We keep our estates private, so we make ourselves easy to check.
Every client is looked after by one Allocation Steward: a single person who knows your vessel or residence, the owner's palate and the season ahead, from the first conversation to the last bottle.
Every estate we work with is a registered South African producer, and your advisors can confirm who they are privately, under confidentiality, before you buy.
Estates who would like to work with us quietly can start a private conversation.
- Your contact
- One Allocation Steward, start to finish
- Licences
- Export and liquor licences shared with your advisors on request
- Insurance
- Shipment cover confirmed before every delivery
- Estate identities
- Disclosed privately to your advisors
- terrilyn@pinogrotto.com
The Cape at sea level
Two oceans, one mountain wall, and a wind with a nickname. Move through the growing year to see what shapes these wines.
Summer and the Doctor
Grapes change colour in the heat. The southeaster pulls a cloud over the mountain like a tablecloth, and it and the cold Atlantic keep the vineyards cool.
From the ground to the vessel
Every step one bottle took, with the record that proves it. Select a step to see the evidence.
A sample passport. Yours arrives with your first allocation.
The ground
Old bush vines on poor, free-draining decomposed granite. This is how we show an estate: the ground it grows in, never its gate.
Temperature in transit
Sample trace. Live sensor data appears here once case loggers are fitted.
Find your match: what does the owner already love?
Pick up to three wines they know. We'll show the Cape wines that speak the same language, and what's still available this season.
Suggested by our AI sommelier from this season's allocations.
Plan the season
Add each port and arrival date. Everything ships from the Cape, so we work back from each arrival and show when to confirm each list.
Trade desk preview. Sign-in and live pricing arrive at launch.
Wine leaves the Cape days before each arrival.
The cellar aboard
41 bottles in the wine store of a sample vessel, updated at the last handover.
A sample client cellar.
We collect unopened bottles and store them ashore until the next charter.
Book a collectionA read-only report with every bottle and its passport.
See a passportOpen this charter
Ready to drink, chosen for this itinerary and these guests.
Step 1 of 2
Who is the wine for?
Two short questions, then a person replies. No account, no catalogue.
Prefer email? Write to terrilyn@pinogrotto.com