Paul Kemp, owner/winemaker of Loma Prieta winery perched on the hills above Santa Cruz, California, died at home on
1 July 2018 from complications following surgery.
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| Paul Kemp |
Paul became enthused with Pinotage and bought fruit from Lodi
and elsewhere in California and planted his own estate vineyard.
His Pinotage
was very much in demand in his tasting room –“People didn’t know the name of
the grape,” he told me, “but when they taste the wine they love it.”
Paul started a Pinotage Wine
Club, regularly supplying Pinotage to subscribers; it is the only wine club exclusively
for Pinotage.
Such was the demand that he eventually grafted over his award
winning Pinot Noir Estate vineyard to Pinotage.
Loma Prieta is North America’s largest producer of Pinotage,
and in 2016 Paul created a sparkling white Pinotage, the world’s first.
Paul visited South Africa’s wineland’s in 2011 where he was hosted
by The Pinotage Association. He reciprocated in 2013 when a group from the
Pinotage Association visited California
.
Paul leaves behind wife Amy and sons Logan, Axel and Brandon.
Paul Bruce Kemp
3 September 1945 – 1 July 2018
For my video of Paul, taken in 2011 see
http://www.pinotage.org/2011/08/paul-kemp-of-californias-loma-prieta.html
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