Gad Kaplan

Gad Kaplan asks whether South African wines have a unique identity worth promoting.

Since the 1960s Pinotage has had its ups and downs but is currently on the ascent, being more widely planted now than its Cinsaut sire, once the most planted red grape variety in the Cape. Pinotage’s popularity is not simply due to its status as an ethnic curiosity. Pinotage, a homegrown wine, finds its place in the sun, writes Gad Kaplan.