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PUBLIC PROFILE

Cinsaut was one of the red wine grape varieties planted heavily after the phylloxera decimated the Cape Vineyards.  In the 1980s it was about 13% of the South African vineyard, and yet at the turn of the century had dropped down to near 3%.  Known as Hermitage in the early days, it is a parent grape of Pinotage the quintessentially South African wine grape, along with Pinot Noir, the noble Burgundy grape.

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