It comes as no surprise that celebrating International Pinotage Day at Lanzerac is a highlight on all Pinotage Lovers’ calendar each year.
Professor Abraham Izak Perold, the first Professor of Viticulture at the University of Stellenbosch, created Pinotage in 1925. His cross-pollination of Pinot Noir and Cinsaut only produced four seeds, which he planted and carefully tended to a mere two kilometres from Lanzerac. It was during the harvest of 1959, when the Stellenbosch Farmers’ Winery cooperative, realised the potential of that year’s vintage, and in 1961, created the world’s first bottled Pinotage, using the Lanzerac label.
Today, Pinotage is the third-most-planted red grape in the South African winelands, and one of Cellar Master, Wynand Lategan’s greatest passions. A passion that has recently seen 3 of Lanzerac’s Pinotage’s awarded 90+ in the latest Tim Atkin SA Special Report.
To celebrate this achievement, Wine Club members can own the 2020 release of the Jonkershoek Pinotage for 25% less during October.
Join us on the 14th and 15th of October as we celebrate this achievement with our yearly Pinotage Festival.
