The tastings are aimed at showcasing the international standard of these winners, as well as a selection of Double Gold brandies, but the top awarded fortified and museum class wines will not be featured.
China and Russia stood out as the more difficult markets of the 2019 citrus season, says Snyman Kritzinger of Grown4U, a grower-exporter of citrus from the Sundays River and Gamtoos valleys in the Eastern Cape.
An investigation into the global trade in pangolins has found evidence of inaccurate record keeping and loopholes that allowed the commercial trade to continue beyond an international ban.
In early February, residents of Hong Kong—an Asian financial hub home to 7.4 million people—faced a shortage of fresh food.