Project Number
WW 12-28
Project title
Factors associated with award winning Pinotage wines
Project leader
Van Schalkwyk, D
Team members
Van Schalkwyk, D
Steenkamp, J
Wooldridge, J
Schmidt, A
Rhode, E
Project description
Exceptional wines stem from fortuitous combinations of environmental and management factors. To date, the factors that contributed to the production of winning wines have neither been identified nor quantified.
This project aims to catalogue and analyse the environmental and management factors which surrounded the production of the winning wines of the ABSA top 10 Pinotage competitions. The overall objective is to identify, and quantify, those factors which are linked with excellent quality Pinotage, to field test the predictive value of these factors, and to formulate appropriate guidelines