Postage Stamp Features Pinotage

The South African Post Office has produced a set of five small international letter rate stamps and a commemorative envelope as tribute to the South African wine industry.

One stamp (left) pictures the first commercially released varietal Pinotage, the 1959 Stellenbosch Farmers Winery 'Lanzerac' brand.

The stamps were by designed by Rachel-Mari Ackermann of the SA Post Office.

The stamps cost R45.75 for a set of five and a commemorative envelope costs R48.75.  The stamps are available from all major South African post offices and can be ordered from sa.stamps@postoffice.co.za.

More information here

The set of the stamps are shown at 
https://www.postoffice.co.za/Philately/2017/wine1.html


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