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SA grape growers must earn more… SA wine lovers must pay more…

05/2018 Mike Froud Leave a comment

Hell no! Or hip hip hooray? At the end of the 2018 grape harvest in the Cape, SA wine industry body Vinpro has again advocated that: “Amidst a looming wine shortage, the South African wine industry needs an upward price adjustment to ensure sustainable supply going forward.” According to Vinpro’s annual Wine Harvest Report, wine grape production is at 1.2 million tonnes

South Africa now 8th biggest wine producer in the world – 2016 update

06/2016 Mike Froud Leave a comment

ACCORDING to statistics announced by the Paris-based International Organisation of Vine and Wine (OIV), the world’s area under vine stands at 7.5 million hectares with total wine production at 274.4 million hectolitres. South Africa now ranks eighth among the biggest wine-producing countries in the world: 1 Italy (49.5 million hectolitres), 2 France (47.5 mhl), 3 Spain (37.2 mhl), 4 USA (22.1 mhl), 5 Argentina (13.4