They’re not yet rationing pinotage in South Africa exactly, but the country’s 3,000-plus grape growers certainly can feel some of the pain of a drought that has pushed nearby Cape Town into a state of emergency.
People sneered back in 2006 when Coke introduced Coca-Cola Blak: the fate of the coffee-flavoured soda was sealed after Anderson Cooper taste-tested it on TV and spat it out on the floor.
Pieter Terblanche glances at the latest order from his Shanghai sales team: wine labels featuring an exotic menagerie of tigers and other wild animals from an imaginary Africa.
Harvard University has quietly become one of the biggest grape growers in California’s drought-stricken Paso Robles wine region, securing water well drilling permits to feed its vineyards days before lawmakers banned new pumping, according to records reviewed by Reuters.
In a dining room above a giant supermarket, several dozen South Africans are sipping wine and sampling some of Canada’s tastiest food exports: smoked salmon, maple syrup, wild rice and more.