1959

The Year Bellevue Pinotage Made History

In 1959, P.K. Morkel entered his Pinotage wine in the Cape Wine Show, South Africa’s top wine competition at the time and won the coveted General Smuts Trophy, heralding P.K. South Africa’s new ‘king of wine.’ Stellenbosch Farmers Winery sold Bellevue’s Pinotage in 1961 under their Lanzerac label. This was the first bottled Pinotage sold in the world.