South Africa’s wine farmers face their third challenging year
Unseasonal weather, disease and uprooting are taking their toll — but it’s not gloom and doom all round
02 February 2023 - 05:00
It hasn’t been an easy two years for South Africa’s wine farmers, and the current crop is also unpromising.
According to wine industry body Vinpro, South African wine farmers are expecting their fourth-smallest crop in 17 years. Rain, subsequent diseases and the large-scale uprooting of vines in the Northern Cape all contributed to this sour situation...
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