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

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.