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Kanonkop: From Burnt Rubber to 100-Point Wine and 4x World's Best

Stellenbosch, South Africa

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"50-year legend on Simonsberg slopes: Kanonkop's Pinotage-focused estate (50% of plantings) earned 100-point scores and 4x World's Best since 1910."

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Founded
1910
Signature wine
🍷 Paul Sauer
Price
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Kanonkop: From Burnt Rubber to 100-Point Wine and 4x World's Best is a winery in Stellenbosch, South Africa. Established in 1910.

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    Kanonkop: From Burnt Rubber to 100-Point Wine and 4x World's Best

    Named after the cannon on Simonsberg that signaled ships entering Table Bay in the 1600s, Kanonkop is South Africa's "First Growth." Beyers Truter's 1989 Pinotage won Best Winemaker in the World at the IWSC in 1991 -- redeeming a grape everyone had written off. His successor Abrie Beeslaar won the same trophy three more times (2008, 2015, 2017). No other estate on Earth has won IWSC Winemaker of the Year 4 times. The Paul Sauer 2015 scored 100 points. Four generations of the Sauer-Krige family. Estate-grown only. Red wine or nothing.

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Kanonkop: From Burnt Rubber to 100-Point Wine and 4x World's Best is located in Stellenbosch, South Africa. GPS: -33.9381, 18.8600.

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