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Boxed wine in SA outsold bottles for the first time in 2020 â and canned wine is now also a thing Business Insider SA
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Some of the premium wines you can now buy in three-litre boxes from Woolworths.
Wines sales in South Africa fell by 20% last year amid restrictions on alcohol sales during the pandemic.
But so-called bag in box wine sales were more resilient than bottled wine, and outsold the latter for the first time ever.
South Africans also bought more than 69,000 litres of canned wine last year.
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Due to long bans on alcohol sales during the pandemic, South Africa wine sales in the local market shrank by a fifth last year – but so-called “bag in box” wines proved more resilient than bottled wine.
SA now has 300 million litres of unsold wine - here s how it will probably play out Business Insider SA
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Ahead of the incoming harvest, South African wine producers are still stuck with surplus stock of 280 million to 300 million litres of wine.
This is the equivalent of total wine sales in the country in the past year.
Wine prices have already started to fall as producers try to shift product, while next year’s grape harvest could end up in juice or hand sanitiser.
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Ahead of the start of the new harvest next month, South African wine producers are still stuck with a massive glut of unsold wine in the country.