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Box wine offers great convivence: no corkscrews or bottle stoppers needed. Image: 123RF/Bernd Juergens
I was astonished when I saw the stats released by the SA Wine Industry earlier this week, which showed that box wines had outsold bottled wines in 2020 for the first time.
Box wine? It conjures up thoughts of my student days when it was all we could afford to drink other than a good ol bottle of Tassies. The notion was that it was cheaper than bottled wine because the contents were of inferior quality, but at that stage economics were more important to us and with a 5L box of wine you could start a party.
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.
Jockey Mark Khan is congratulated by trainer Gary Alexander in 2017. Picture: Jack Milner
The reeling horse racing industry has taken another hefty punch with news that leading Highveld trainer Gary Alexander will relocate to Australia in 2021. Alexander, 61, and his assistant and younger brother Dean, will set up their new base at Murray Bridge training centre in South Australia, where the Liberal Party state government has recently partnered with the racing industry to build a state-of-the-art facility to grow the game, boost employment opportunities and stimulate the economy. This rosy scenario contrasts starkly with that the Alexanders leave behind in South Africa: an industry in business rescue, a fractious labour situation and.
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