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	<title>Design News &#187; south african chardonnay</title>
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		<title>Local Chardonnay is on the rise</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Oct 2024 06:42:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[chardonnay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[south african chardonnay]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you were to name Chardonnay as South Africa’s fastest growing category in 2024, you’d be right. According to Head of Insights and Business Advisory at Vinimark, Oelof Weideman, ‘Retailers are becoming more open to stocking Chardonnay and there are currently 504 Chardonnay products available at major retailers in South Africa. That’s 11 more than there were four years ago.’ This growth becomes even more interesting if you consider ‘Chardonnay is one of the most expensive white wines in the market at an average cost of R84,16 per bottle’, Weideman says. ‘Although 70% of Chardonnay sales are for easy-drinking products that are unwooded, and which come in at less than R100 a bottle, we are seeing growth at the higher price points, too.’ Premium Chardonnays are usually wooded, thus requiring longer maturation time and an investment in extended production by the winemaker. Some of these wines fetch more than R600 per bottle, but most sit at the R200-R300 per bottle mark.  ‘Yet every price band, from entry level to premium, is showing more than five percent growth and keeping up with inflation,’ Weideman says. ‘There has been no change in the top five Chardonnay sellers in the lower price brackets [...]]]></description>
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