MICHAEL FRIDJHON: Raise a glass to Dave Hughes, a champion of SA wine
He was one of the few people able to bridge the gap between the old era and the new
15 February 2023 - 04:59
The death of Dave Hughes — who passed away last week — brought down the curtain on the generation responsible for making wine the beverage of choice for middle-class South Africans in the 21st century.
Before the 1950s and early 1960s the market was dominated by high-volume cheap wine sold in returnable glass, or fortified wines which, with brandy, were the primary alcoholic drinks in the Western and Eastern Cape. In those days beer and whisky/brandy (depending on whether you were from English or Afrikaans stock) were what was consumed north of the Orange River...
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