The opportunities for the drinks industry in China – currently the world’s most populous market – have attracted considerable investment in recent times.

For some years in fine wine circles, Champagne was a byword for dependable but unspectacular secondary market growth.

Enzo Jannacci, an unforgettable singer-songwriter but also a fine surgeon, recalled how silly it is to live sick and then die healthy.

In his 2005 book, ‘A Wine Miscellany’, author, Graham Harding argues: “wine is not just ‘the fermented juice of grapes’.”

Do we need to change the way we talk about wine? Are our vocabulary, standards and perspectives of wine too Eurocentric for a modern, globalized world? Some say yes, and their arguments echo recent shifts in the way we view our past and present society.

South African wine estates are being scooped up, with a number of prestigious properties – including Uitkyk, Villiera and Kleine Zalze – acquired by international investors over the past few months.

Over the past several years, broad cultural movements—#MeToo, Black Lives Matter, the shift to remote work—have impacted the wine industry as much as any other. Within the wine education space specifically, the impacts of these movements have been widespread, spurring change at almost every level—with no signs of slowing down.

For our purposes, for both the viticulture and the weather, we will adhere to Merriam-Webster Dictionary's definition: going to great or exaggerated lengths; exceeding the ordinary, usual or expected; situated at the farthest possible point from a center; most advanced or thoroughgoing.

We are all guilty of it, we eye up an expensive-looking label, or a heavy bottle or take a glance at the bottle price and we have already made our mind up about the wine.

Cape Town-based Nice Beverage Company launches UNFLTRD canned wines with two distinct, and refreshing flavours

Wine was first produced in South Africa as far back as the mid-1600s by Dutch colonisers who sold it to passing ships.

To truly understand the difference between Syrah and Shiraz we have to travel back in time.

Oregon State University researchers have discovered a new class of compounds that contributes to the ashy or smoky flavors in wine made with grapes exposed to wildfire smoke.

South African workers in the wine sector were fighting against poor working conditions for farm workers at several vineyards in the country and the wine retailers were supporting their actions.

Overseas buyers are investing in South African vineyards with plans to raise the bar.

The 2023 wine grape harvest is estimated at 1180093 tones, according to the latest harvest estimate by industry body SAWIS (South African Wine Industry Information and Systems) on 12 May 2023. This is 14.2% smaller than the 2022 harvest.

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Consumer demand for no- and low-alcohol products is skyrocketing.