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ABSA Top 10 Pinotage Competition winners 2010
Pinotage, a crossing of Pinot Noir and Hermitage (Cinsaut), was created when Abraham Izak Perold physically brushed a male Hermitage flower against a pollen donor Pinot Noir at Welgevallen Experimental farm in Stellenbosch in 1925. Fitting then that one of the Cape’s ABSA Top 10 Pinotage competition winners – Die Laan Pinotage 2008 – hails from this [...]
Continue reading...Eating humble pie
Posted Monday 31st August 2009
August has been the humble pie season and I’ve had a double-helping! First, I said I’d never blog and here I am, writing my first blog! Second, I ditched my street cred, borrowed Sir Cliff Richard’s biography from my local library (really!) and headed out to his Algarve winery, Adega do Cantor, for an uncorked/unplugged [...]
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Posted Monday 27th September 2010
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