Tough Times for Fine Wine and Spirits

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Falling consumption, a move to no- and low-alcohol alternatives, falling prices and market consolidation have all been familiar themes for the wine and spirits industries over the past couple of years and a survey of the industry suggests there is more to come in the year ahead.


Why America's vineyards are in crisis – and how growers are responding

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This year was a bitter harvest for hundreds of American winegrape growers, as wineries cancelled contracts to purchase their grapes. Now, across the nation, thousands of acres of grapes went unsold this year and have been left to rot on the vine or on the ground, or the vines have been ripped out of the earth.


The climate crisis comes to the vineyard

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At Vinimark’s recent Masterclass on Organic and Biodynamic Wines, the company’s senior sustainability manager, Siglinda Lösch, unpacked what this means for South African wine brands:


How soil could help us reach climate targets

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The UN climate summit, Cop30, is currently taking place in Belém, Brazil, a region with some of the most carbon-dense soils on Earth: the Amazonian dark earths. These deep, dark and exceptionally fertile soils are thought to have been intentionally enriched with carbon.