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

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

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Prices of Top 100 SA wines vary big time – even within each class

ACCORDING to Vinpro, an organisation representing thousands of farmers and hundreds of cellars in South Africa, the industry is at a turning point in 2018, faced with the smallest grape crop since 2005 and increasing financial pressure. The national vineyard is in decline – mainly due to farmers uprooting vines and replacing them with more profitable crops, but also because

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