The world is giving pinotage another chance. Finally
FOR the longest time the wine world looked down on pinotage. Like chardonnay and rosé, pinotage just couldn’t catch a break, which must have been heartbreaking for South African wine producers.
Pinotage is a grape that is a cross between pinot noir and cinsault (Hermitage) and was created in 1925 by Abraham Izak Perold, who was the Professor of Viticulture at the University of Stellenbosch.
Chris Theron then took the pinotage experiment to the next level and planted it commercially in the 1940s in the Bellevue, Kanonkop, Meerendal and
