Tim James: Three cheers for the Old Vines Project
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Old-vine Chenin Blanc on the Paardeberg, Swartland.
While much of the South African wine industry was whingeing and weeping on the international and local stages about its problems and opportunistically assigning too many of them to lockdown (see Edo Heyns’s very relevant comments), and incoherently trying to cope without the representative leadership that is so much needed (as Michael Fridjhon argues) – all the time, a few groupings, as well as numerous wineries, were proceeding with dynamic strategies that bring honour to South African wine on the basis of quality and interest rather than on pathetic hard-done-by-ness.