Showing posts with label South Africa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label South Africa. Show all posts

Saturday 23 October 2021

Visitors to our vineyard


Louis Mostert, a former South African vintner, is visiting his daughter who lives in Ireland and asked to stop by to see what we were doing. He was very encouraged and has put us in touch with a enologist in SA who wants to come to Ireland. 

Louis owned a vineyard and winery in SA but has sold it and retired. He now consults for other vintners. He thought our vines looked very healthy. It's always good to hear from people who know what they are doing that we are not insane. 

The Rondo leaves have just turned a pleasing shade of reddish-orange. All the others are still green. 

Sunday 28 January 2018

World wine production plummets

The Organisation Internationale de la Vigne et du Vin (OIV) in its press release called it "A historically low 2017 production especially in Western Europe due to unfavourable climate conditions."  GLOBAL ECONOMIC VITIVINICULTURE DATA estimated 2017 World wine production  at 246.7 mhl, a fall of 8.2% compared with 2016.