Despite such incursions, Pinotage is still pretty hard to find on restaurant wine lists and retail-store shelves.
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Pinotage is grown in many places outside of South Africa, including California, New Zealand, Australia and Washington state.
WSJ: Does Much-Unloved Pinotage Deserve Another Look? | On Wine by Lettie Teague
Even an adventurous professional like Eamon Rockey of Aska in Brooklyn hasn't got a Pinotage on his list.
WSJ: Does Much-Unloved Pinotage Deserve Another Look? | On Wine by Lettie Teague
Bruce Jack's single-vineyard Pinotage and Kanonkop's Black Label Pinotage are already gaining traction.
But this hasn't kept Pinotage from spreading to other parts of the world.
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Apparently, Pinotage growers aren't too keen on them either, as "Wine Grapes" says that research is under way at Stellenbosch University to determine their cause.
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Owner Johann Krige estimates 25% of production has been lost in a fire that swept down the Simonsberg Mountain, largely affecting their prized Pinotage grapes.
Mr. Gorman would be pleased to know that Pinotage represented but a small percentage of the South African wines at the two where I went shopping recently.
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Mr. Gorman suggests to retailers that they should not make Pinotage their "first port of call" for customers looking for the wine but focus on other South African varietals.
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John Gorman, the vice president of sales and marketing for Southern Starz, a California-based importer specializing in wines from the Southern Hemisphere, has his doubts about Pinotage serving as South Africa's flagship.
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Jesse Salazar, wine director of Union Square, told me that most people who sought out Pinotage were "wine beginners" who had read about but never tried the grape, or people who had recently been to South Africa.
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