The varietal, a cross between pinot noir and cinsaut, turns 100 this yr
23 April 2025 – 04:59
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SA wine drinkers ought to brace themselves for a yr of festivities as pinotage turns 100. Whereas this won’t be a trigger for common celebration, it additionally needn’t essentially provoke the sort of cringe trendy again within the Nineteen Eighties.
Pinotage was created by Professor Perold — on the time the Cape’s pre-eminent viticulturist — in 1925 by crossing pinot noir (famend for the delicacy of its flavours) with cinsaut (admired for its hardiness and resistance to illness)…
