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If May is the month of growth, June marks the first harvest of early summer, it stands for collecting the fruits of the seeds sown. In all faiths, the calendar of nature dictates the rituals and religious celebrations regardless of differences in countries and beliefs. Let’s look at the calendar. Yesterday was Pentecost for Christians, and the days of May 25 and 27 last week were Shavuot for Jews, which is the time to celebrate the harvest season. Interestingly, like in many similar spring rituals celebrating the new harvest season, it is customary to dress in white on both days. Likewise, the Turkish spring celebrations Nevruz and Hıdrellez also call for dressing in white and eating white food, mostly milk and dairy. In the Jewish holiday of Shavuot table milk and cheese is essential, and it is time to stay away from meat. Fresh cheese and milk desserts are among the must-eat delicacies during the days of Shavuot.
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.