Grapevariety
Pinotage
Also known as PEROLD'S HERMITAGE X PINOT
PEROLD'S HERMITAGE X PINOT
A wine grape crossed in 1925.
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Taste & texture
- Flavour
- Particular flavour No particular flavour recorded
How to spot it
- Skin
- Berry skin colour class Black colour class
- Seeds & stone
- Seed formation Fully developed seeds recorded
Origin & family
Where Pinotage began
Recorded origin
South Africa
- Institution
- ARC Infruitec-Nietvoorbij
- Crossed
- 1925
Pinotage’s family
4 varieties · 3 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Pinotage
South Africa
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- Taste
- NONE
- Species
- VITIS VINIFERA LINNÉ SUBSP. SATIVA (DE CANDOLLE) HEGI
- Chlorotype
- C
- Sex of flowers
- HERMAPHRODITE
- Formation of seeds
- COMPLETE
- Color of berry skin
- NOIR