MICHAEL FRIDJHON: Cultivars are not immune to souring economics
The inevitable race to the bottom does not favour SA
25 September 2019 - 05:05
There’s a fashion to wine cultivars, despite the life of a vineyard being measured in decades rather than years and the cost of replacement running to more than R500,000 a hectare.
In the 19th century, SA was semillon and chenin country, with probably no more than 10% of the national vineyard dedicated to other cultivars. ..
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