Cape Blend gets new status
2010-08-12
A NEW wine competition to find the top Cape blend, the Absa Perold Cape Blend Competition, has been launched. Key to the competition is the requirement that the blended wine should contain a minimum of 30% and maximum of 70% Pinotage. Pinotage, as a uniquely South Africa cultivar, represents the African spirit in the depth of flavour and range of aromas and is the ideal basis on which the competition is built. KWV, where Prof Abraham Perold was the chief oenologist when he created Pinotage, granted the Pinotage Association permission to use the name, solely for use for the Cape Blend Competition. “With the Absa Perold Cape Blend Competition, our aim is to assist the wine industry to set a standard in what constitutes a Cape Blend,” says Ernst Janovsky, General Manager of Absa AgriBusiness. The winner of Absa Perold Cape Blend Competition will be selected in 2011 through a wine tasting, which will be done by the same judges who judge the Absa Top 10 Pinotage Competition. “Prof Perold dedicated his life and genius to influence every aspect of wine production. The same set of values and sense of quality and perfection form part of KWV’s Abraham Perold heritage brand. We guard the integrity of the name ‘Perold’.
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