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The way forward: the importance of social sustainability
The 2022 Vinpro Information Day placed the emphasis on the need to revive, recover and rebuild after the shocks of the past two years. Panellists Bruce Jack and Bridgitte Backman believe social sustainability is the key.
By Johannes Richter · 6 min read
Back to basics
Wine producers need to join forces and focus on varietals such as Chenin Blanc and Pinotage to set Brand South Africa apart.
By Jana Loots · 5 min read
Smarter, faster, richer, wiser
A healthy, adaptable and competitive wine industry is in the best interest of each of its stakeholders. And this is exactly what the Wine Industry Strategic Exercise (Wise) envisions. WANDA AUGUSTYN spoke to the driving forces behind this strategic project about the challenges, priorities and an…
By Wanda Augustyn · 10 min read
#Budgetspeech2019: Excise increase of 7.4% on wine and brandy and 9% on sparkling wine
Finance minister Tito Mboweni during the National Budget Speech in parliament today.
By Anton Pretorius · 2 min read
#Budget2019: Making sense of excise on wine
They say only two things in life are certain: death and taxes. And sure enough, during his recent annual budget address, finance minister Tito Mboweni announced
By Anton Pretorius · 4 min read
Wake-up call for wine industry: conscious millennials disconnected from wine
As the trend to adopt a healthier lifestyle continues, millennials are increasingly turning away from wine. A marked decline in growth among the world’s largest
By Anton Pretorius · 9 min read
SA wine calls on government to support recovery & growth
The SA wine industry calls on government to join hands in rebuilding the sector towards a sustainable future by creating an enabling environment through sound p
By SA Wine Industry · 5 min read
Western Cape Government welcomes Brandvlei Dam construction
The Western Cape Government warmly welcomes the construction to raise the wall of the 4km feeder canal into the Brandvlei Dam by 300mm.
By SA Wine Industry · 2 min read
The CRISPR revolution and grapevine
Genome editing is a catchall phrase to describe the technologies that are available to alter an organism’s DNA. The most promising of these technologies is CRISPR, which is an acronym for ‘Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats’ and occurs in nature as a bacterial ‘immune system’.
By Manuela Campa, Philip Young, Melané Vivier and Johan Burger · 9 min read
New Drinks Federation of South Africa to foster the country's economic growth and social cohesion
‘There’s a lot of good that flows from the alcohol industry.’
By Danné · 4 min read
Centennial celebration and congress of the International Union of Soil Science
In the last 10 years the word “carbon” has enjoyed preferential attention in terms of soil health among researchers and the media. However, the question is: is this just a trend, and what will be the outcome(s) of this trend?
By Johan de Jager · 10 min read
FIVS calls on U.S. to modernise wine labels as half of all wine crosses borders
FIVS, the global voice of the wine sector, is calling on U.S. regulators to embrace digital labelling as part of a broader effort to modernise wine labelling rules. In formal comments submitted to the U.S. Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau consultation on proposed nutrition statements on…
By SA Wine Industry · 3 min read
