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A quick
read about all the goings on in the Pinotage industry.
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Advancing and promoting wine made from pinotage grapes.
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A history interspersed with a series of coincidences.
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Strong vines, moderate yields and vinified with grand
intentions.
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Berry fruit with a characteristic plummy, banana like
aroma & flavour.
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Recognising excellence and promoting the ongoing
improvement of Pinotage.
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Keep in touch with all our events -
right back to 1999!
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Research keeps you in touch with the future.
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Cape Blend Competition!
Absa and the Pinotage Association have announced the Absa
Perold Cape Blend Competition, aimed at creating a signature
style for the composition of true Cape Blends.
Key to the competition is the requirement that the blended wine
should contain a minimum of 30% and maximum of 70% Pinotage.
Pinotage, as a uniquely South Africa cultivar represents the
African spirit in the depth of flavour and range of aromas and is
the ideal basis on which the competition is built.
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Thys Loubser; Beyers Truter; Ernst
Janovsky and
DeWet Viljoen celebrate the announcement. |
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ABSA Top 10
Pinotage Competition
Pinotage producers have the opportunity once again to go head to
head with their peers in the 2010 ABSA Top 10 Pinotage
Competition. Full details and all rules, entry forms and other
information is now available.
Recognising excellence and promoting the ongoing
improvement of Pinotage.
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Quick Download
Entry Form
(pdf)
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Afrikaans
Rules
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A sweet spot for Pinotage

It will always be emphasized that Pinotage is a versatile red grape
variety, you can produce an absolute top quality full-bodied food
wine, or medium-bodied wine to be enjoyed on its own, or rosé wine or
sparkling wine. And now the Pinotage sweet spot has also shown top
quality.

At the annual South African Young Wine Show wines from the current
vintage are judged shortly after the harvesting, pressing and
fermentation has been completed.
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Decades of growing and showing

By Marius Labuschagne

We sat around the table, with the unobstructed view of
the ocean from Beyers Truter’s home in Vermont, named Pinotage. And on
the table were Pinotage wines from 1963 to 2006. All the serious
wine lovers and connoisseurs who joined us could only smell, sip
and talk about those wines, the view came second for quite a
while.
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The first ever bottled
and branded Pinotage wine to hit the shelves was the Lanzerac
Pinotage 1961. Read more about the wines we tasted. |
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Kanonkop’s premium Pinotage aimed at the secondary market
Kanonkop, the internationally renowned wine
estate in Stellenbosch, has just released its first new wine label in
forty years. The Kanonkop Black Label Pinotage 2006 is a limited
release wine made from vines planted on the Kanonkop Estate in 1953
and is aimed at the premium, exclusive wine market. Of a total
production of 1 178 bottles, 1000 bottles have been placed on the
market at a price of R1 000 per bottle.
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Abraham Perold Trophy in the international arena

The trophy for the world’s top Pinotage wine at the International Wine
and Spirits Competition (IWSC) in London this year was changed to the
Abraham Perold Trophy for Best Pinotage, to give recognition to the
father of Pinotage, Abraham Perold. The new sponsors are Absa and the
Pinotage Association.
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Abraham Perold Trophy in the international arena

The trophy for the world’s top Pinotage wine at the International Wine
and Spirits Competition (IWSC) in London this year was changed to the
Abraham Perold Trophy for Best Pinotage, to give recognition to the
father of Pinotage, Abraham Perold. The new sponsors are Absa and the
Pinotage Association.
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more.Pinotage comes out tops at WineX people’s poll

Pinotage received a resounding thumbs-up by
Cape Town and Johannesburg wine lovers in the Best Wines on Show
ballot conducted at RMB WineX held recently in both cities. Read more.
The Pinotage Rosé full of awards and delight

by Marius Labuschagne

After a very long wet and windy winter (the Cape winelands is not
complaining, another good vintage should be on its way), we can now at
last again braai outside barefooted with short pants while talking
politics and sport.
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Pinotage civilization at 50

By Emile Joubert

Humanity has been enjoying wine for over 8000 years, but only 50 of
these have been committed to the appreciation of Pinotage. And
although 50 years may seem like a drop in the fermentation vat of wine
culture, it is unlikely that any other variety has made such a
profound impression on the wine world in such a short time.
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A Pinotage gale force strikes Windmeul

Windmeul Cellar in the past three months totally rose to the fore with
an array of wine awards, with especially Pinotage. The Windmeul
Pinotage Reserve 2008 is the only wine that was selected as one of the
Absa Top 10 Pinotage winners and also received a Double Gold Veritas
Award.
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De Waal's Top of the Hill rated on top

Uiterwyk Estate in Stellenbosch has been a De
Waal family concern since 1864. Chris, Pieter and Daniel de Waal are
the ninth generation of the family involved in winemaking in South
Africa. The wines combine Old World finesse and New World abundant
fruit.
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The world's Top Red Varietal is SA's Pinotage

The 2009 Decanter World Wine Awards this year
attracted 10 285 entries, cementing it as the world's biggest wine
competition. The results were announced this month (September) and the
International Trophy for Top Red Single Varietal over ?10 was awarded
to the Kaapzicht Steytler Pinotage 2006..Read
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