South Africais one of the most prominent wine-producing countries in the Southern Hemisphere. Since the end of apartheid, the South African wine industry has enjoyed international attention and acclaim for its wide variety of wine styles and grape varieties. ...
Western Cape Wine TheWestern Cape is home to the vast majority of theSouth Africanwine industry, and the country's two most famous wine regions,StellenboschandPaarl. The city of Cape Town serves as the epicenter of the Cape Winelands, a mountainous, biologically diverse area in the south-...
The Final Insult for South African Wine South Africa Struggles for Survival South Africa Gears Up For a Takeover In theory, South Africa is in the midst of its high summer season – a vital part of the year that has traditionally seen millions of tourists pour money into the local economy...
Hand-harvesting grapes at Badenhorst Family Wines - a prominent Swartland wine producer | ©A.A. Badenhorst Family Wines Swartland covers a large area, encompassing the vineyards on the northern side of the Paardeberg mountain in the south to the plains of Piketberg in the north. The smaller...
Esterhuizen, Dirk y Johan Van Rooyen, "An Inquiry into Factors Impacting on the Competitiveness of the South African Wine Industry", Agrekon, Routledge, vol. 45, num. 4, diciembre de 2006, pp. 467-485.Esterhiuizen, D., and C.J. van Rooyen (2006): An inquiry into factors impacting ...
How important is Pinotage to the South African wine industry? So Pinotage – very much one of the grapes we hang our hook on – is the truly proudly South African red variety that has come a long way. It has been negatively seen in the past and engaged with negatively but that has ver...
According to Rico Basson, executive director of South African wine industry organization Vinpro, around one fifth of South Africa's wineries are foreign-owned, and the last five years have seen a flurry of foreign investor activity. © Ken Forrester | Stellenbosch's Ken Forrester estate was ...
The South African wine industry is introducing an ethical seal in a bid to reassure both consumers and retailers that its wines are produced under fair working conditions. The initiative was launched Thursday by the Wine and Agricultural Industry Ethical Trade Association (WIETA), almost nine months...
Orange River is associated with the production of bulk wine with the majority of grapes grown in the area white varieties such asChenin Blanc,Colombardand Hanepoot (Muscat of Alexandria). There is a growing contingent of red wines made from theCabernet Sauvignon,PinotageandShirazgrape varieties. ...
One of Darling's signature grape varieties is Shiraz, also grown in bush vines in some vineyards inAustraliaand SouthernFrance. Darling's other top-performing grape, Sauvignon Blanc – almost uniquely across the global wine industry – is also extensively planted as a bush vine. Bush-vinePinotage...