Pinotage

And

Pinotage, which is unique to South Africa.

I had the best Chenin Blanc of my life on this trip.

And I've been to the Loire Valley.

Rather than

having to, to order it or wait for it or, or what have you.

Um, And it was nice because, I mean, for example, Senalala had four different Pinotages.

I think you tried them all.

I got it for three thousand five hundred rand on special from a supermarket look at you Not welcome.

Okay, but if you were to go at this F&B Wines to Wales race, the three, the Chardonnay, the Pinotage and the Charest, and if you were to actually just add up the value of all the bikes,

I'm

telling you we're going to hit a trillion right there.

So congratulations on your wedding.

Um, it was Pinotage Day, which is a variation on a Pinot Noir wine, um, combining very specific Pinot Noir grapes with like cin...

It's in something like Cinquiet or something like that.

I looked it up and of course my brain is forgetting it now, but it's a very particular type of wine that we celebrate every October 10th.

Michael, you're going to relate to this one.

Nine South African university students were sanctioned after a controversial cricket bet hit the headlines at Stellenbosch University in the Western Cape, a place famous for its wine, specifically the Pinotage variant.

The issue arose after a game of nine-a-side quad cricket at one of the university halls of residence at 7.30pm on Tuesday night.

Quad cricket is a variant of BYC played in a tight, enclosed location.

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Part 4, The Case for Pinotage with Johan Krijs at Cannon Cup.

Welcome to the Wine Centric Show.

We are here in this beautiful garden of Canankop with the CEO of Canankop, Mr. Johan Kriger.

Soon we'll be lucky.

Yeah.

So tell us, you are a winery that has begun, really put South Africa and certainly Stellenbosch on the map and known, obviously Cabernet Sauvignon is king in Stellenbosch and was known here, but you created a different level of quality for Pinotage here.

How did you go about that? Why did you go about that?

So it would have been around 2009 or 2010.

And they had this free form, like 10 Cabernets on this table, 10 Syrahs on this table, and 10 Pinotages on that table.

And I decided, okay, I don't need to write a tasting note on all of these wines.

but I do need to taste them all.

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Drink deliciously.

Maybe he comes from South Africa.

Can you ask him to bring some Pinotage and see how Pinotage has evolved over the years? And the style has changed.

Explain a bit about that.

If you could do a short segue into the Pinotage talk, that'd be great." So sometimes they ask things like that.

So I think, um, those who do, yeah, we try to coordinate this.

Not, not really.

To make wine with intent.

So when I make Pinotage, it's made to be a Pinotage with intent.

When I made Chenin Blanc, it's a similar story.

And the toughest thing, I think, for me as a person is to be pushed into a box.