That’s the word used to describe the memory of wine industry professionals around the subject of pinotage, the uniquely South African grape variety that’s a cross between pinot noir and cinsault. I ...

October 10, 2015, is the International Pinotage Day, so if you have not tasted this wine grape variety before this is a good time to do it. If you are already familiar with Pinotage, then why not just ...

THERE ARE VERY FEW wines I truly don't like, and only one that I've ever declared I despise. Except that wine writers are not supposed to "despise" wines. While we can be disappointed, or crestfallen, ...

If you have a taste memory of Pinotage, chances are it’s a little long in the tooth and, shall we say, less than pleasant. In the 1990s, after Nelson Mandela was released from prison in South Africa ...

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It's the grape that divides people like Donald Trump. Assertive, offbeat and sometimes wildly awkward, pinotage is the quintessential love-it-or-hate-it variety, an argument in a bottle. On the plus ...

Mention pinotage at a wine tasting and you’ll almost certainly hear derisive comments, but this grape makes universally appealing wines too Victoria Moore is the Telegraph's wine columnist and one of ...