A year ago, winemaker Sandile Mkhwanazi said lockdown would kill his business. Now it has May 16, 2021, 04:07 PM
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Sandile Mkhwanazi who managed the Nantes Estate vineyard. (Image: Supplied/Nantes Estate)
A top estate and wine farm in the Western Cape has filed for liquidation, killing the business of Sandile Mkhwanazi, a winemaker who jointly owns wine brand Tumbaga.
Mkhwanazi predicted the business would crumble under the pressure brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic - and the hard lockdown.
He had 35,000 bottles of wine worth R2.8 million ready to sell just as President Cyril Ramaphosa announced a lockdown which banned the sale of alcohol.