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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.
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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.
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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:
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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.
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Screw caps for wine bottles have been around for almost 70 years, but in many ways they are still a controversial closure. Screw caps are often associated with low-end wines that are not meant for aging, and seeing a high-end restaurant present an expensive, aged bottle with a screw cap can be shocking, particularly for U.S. consumers.
