Editorial: Pinotage at 101 – the case for less muscle, more imagination
Wine Mag | 20.01.2026 11:00
The centenary of Pinotage has come and gone. Did last year’s celebrations amount to anything meaningful? I’m not sure. There were dinners, tastings, specially minted medallions and plenty of back-slapping, yet it’s hard to say whether the year shifted perceptions or merely reinforced existing positions. If anniversaries are supposed to be moments of recalibration, then Pinotage’s hundredth birthday may have been more polite nod than hard look in the mirror.
