The 1999 Top 10 Pinotage competition, hosted by the Pinotage Producers Association is becoming one of the highlights of the Cape wine competitions. The competition is in its third year and this year attracted a record numer of entries.

Neil Ellis made the selection for the first time with the 1998 'Swan Song' Pinotage. The name of the wine makes reference to it being made from the final vintage of a 30-year-old vineyard which, subsequent to the 1998 harvest, was pulled-out and replanted.