Pinotage

Pinotage: South Africa’s Flagship Variety

Pinotage: South Africa’s Flagship Variety Every wine lover, wine enthusiast, and wine blogger should have the opportunity to taste a wine made from the Pinotage grape varietal. The red grape is native to South […]

Staff Writers2023-03-09T06:38:32+00:00Categories: Country Profiles, This Day in Wine History | Articles, Wine Varieties|Tags: Pinotage, South Africa, South African wine|

March 4

March 4, 1193: Al-Nasr Salah-al Din, better known simply as Saladin, meaning the ‘Righteousness of the Faith’, died at Damascus in Syria. This Kurdish general had risen to become Vizier of the Fatimid Caliphate […]

Ken Wytsma2023-01-16T21:11:51+00:00Categories: This Day in Wine History | Dates|Tags: Abraham Izak Perold, Ann Noble, California, Cinsault, Crusades, Drinking in Islam, Egypt, Islam, Jerusalem, Middle Ages, Pinot Noit, Pinotage, Saladin, Saladin Ayubi, South Africa, Stellenbosch University, wine in Islam|

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