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		<title>Harvesting the future: South African wine continues to transform</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Feb 2024 11:17:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the country celebrates 365 years of winemaking, award-winning wine writer Malu Lambert asks what forces are shaping the future of South Africa’s wine industry, which is evolving exponentially through ongoing innovations, inclusivity and socioeconomic programmes, as well as a commitment to sustainability. Much like 365 years ago, since the first recorded harvest, grapes hang plump in the Cape’s vineyards, waiting to be snipped from the vine. The South African wine harvest 2024, one of the earliest in recent memory, has set off at a gallop, accompanied by the hum of tractors as they amble from site to cellar, the whirr of optical sorting tables and the pleasing hush of the pneumatic press.  The Cap Classique harvest – which generally begins two weeks before still wine – was also early. ‘We started picking on 4 January,’ says Krone Cap Classique winemaker Stephan de Beer from the estate in Tulbagh. ‘It’s the earliest harvest in the 16 years I’ve been at Twee Jonge Gezellen.’ No stranger to innovation, the estate has been night-harvesting its grapes since the 1980s, a tradition that helps retain acidities and pure fruit flavours. Cold fermentation in South Africa was also pioneered here, in the 1950s. More [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prominent historian Patric Tariq Mellet gives rare public appearance this Heritage Month, to speak on Early Black Farmers &amp; Winemakers of the Cape</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2021 18:58:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[8 September]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As part of its month-long Heritage festival, Cultivate Collective will be hosting a keynote talk by the venerable Patric Tariq Mellet, aka “Zinto”, on the evening of 8 September 2021. The festival highlights natural history, arts and culture, music, and wine through a high-profile line-up of prominent historians, musicians, cultural figures and winemakers. Cultivate is a dynamic, newly launched initiative that aims to inspire and realise a local wine industry landscape that is made in the image of the people who live and work in South Africa. In keeping with Cultivate’s aims, Mellet will be presenting on the topic of “REMEMBERING – Early Black Farmers &#38; Winemakers of the Cape 1679 – 1750”. A specialist in this area, his talk will trace the beginnings of local black practitioners, bringing to light how Apartheid narratives sought to bury this vital part of our winemaking history. Himself a formidable and highly respected figure in contemporary South African culture, politics, history and heritage, Mellet is the author of four notable books. These include: Drakenstein Erasure – The Black Roots of the Vine, An Untold Cape History; Lenses on Cape Identities – Exploring Roots in South Africa; and The Lie of 1652 – A [...]]]></description>
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