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
Read moreJUST PRIOR to South Africa’s annual general wine price increases in March and April 2018, grape farmers were forecasting the smallest crop since 2005 and the financial pressure on wine producers continued to mount. In response, Vinpro MD Rico Basson advocated during his ‘state of the industry’ review that pushing up prices was a means of dealing with the situation. And growing in
Read moreLEADING UK wine scribe Jancis Robinson writes on her website that South Africa’s industry is at “a very strange, possibly critical, point in its evolution.” She refers to “a serious cohort of radical and cohesive young winemakers forging a new wine identity for their country” (some of whom she had never heard of, because they are so ‘fledgling’). “There is
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