South African wine industry adapts to 2024 harvest challenges
The 2024 harvest season in South Africa has tested the resilience of its wine industry, with producers navigating various climatic challenges.
Read more...The 2024 harvest season in South Africa has tested the resilience of its wine industry, with producers navigating various climatic challenges.
Read more...Vinpro, together with the Cape Winelands District Municipality, is funding a new wine tourism research programme, “to help wineries stay connected to wine tourists between visits”.
Read more...The South African wine industry remains focused on its road to recovery following a 5% decline in export volumes in 2022.
Read more...South African viticulturists and producer cellars are predicting a smaller 2023 wine grape crop following a “healthy, yet dry season.”
Read more...Wine oversight body Vinpro has urged South Africa’s winegrowers to use the pandemic crisis as an opportunity “to revive, recover and rebuild,” adapting current business models to better cope with a rapidly changing world.
Read more...The South African wine industry has released a favourable crop estimate following the 2021 growing season.
Read more...The international communities’ decision to prohibit travel to South Africa will have “significant implications” for the nation's struggling wine and tourism industries, according to oversight body VinPro.
Read more...The South African wine industry has called on the Government to include sustainability in its plans to help in the recovery and growth of the sector and country.
Read more...Vinpro has said it is “hopeful for a positive outcome” following the announcement by the Western Cape High Court that it reserved judgement in the court case during which the industry body contested the approach followed by government towards alcohol ban restrictions.
Read more...Vinpro has pledged to continue its fight to help fully reopen and rebuild the SA wine industry.
Read more...The Western Cape High Court has reserved judgement on Vinpro’s urgent interim interdict application that would afford the Premier of the Western Cape the power to adopt deviations to the national ban to enable off- and on-consumption sale of alcohol in the province.
Read more...Vinpro has confirmed that it is to argue its urgent interim interdict application in the Western Cape High Court tomorrow (Wednesday 21 July).
Read more...Vinpro’s urgent interim interdict application to lift the latest ban on wine sales in the Western Cape has been postponed.
Read more...Vinpro has launched an urgent interim interdict application to lift the ban on the sale of wine in the Western Cape in a bid to seek interim relief for wine businesses.
Read more...South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced a total ban on the sale of alcohol for the fourth time since the start of the pandemic.
Read more...Vinpro has warned about the “dire consequences” another alcohol ban, or restrictions on wine sales, would hold for related businesses and the livelihoods of those working in the South African wine industry value-chain.
Read more...Vinpro has declared the 2021 vintage one of "consistent high quality” in what was overall a cooler season.
Read more...The legal challenge by Vinpro against South Africa’s national government, according to which it is contesting specific aspects of decision-making in respect of liquor bans, has been postponed to August 2021.
Read more...The South African government has announced it will increase the excise duties on alcohol by 8%.
Read more...Vinpro has said it now awaits confirmation of a new expedited court date in its battle to avoid any future disruptions to the South African wine industry and its value-chain.
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