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Article: Cape cool
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- Western Daily Press (Bristol UK)
- Article date:
- October 31, 2009
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S uddenly, it's cool to drink South African wine. In the past
year, while our consumption of wine from everywhere else has been in
gentle decline, imports into Britain from the Cape have grown by a
third.
Out of every 100 bottles of wine we now buy to drink at home, 12
are South African, compared to eight from Chile, seven from Spain
and just one from Portugal. And the Cape looks likely soon to
overtake France and Italy, on 13 each. That would leave only the US
on 15 and Australia on 21 to overtake, and move into the number one
slot.
OK, enough of the dry statistics. The wines are a lot more fun to
contemplate. I don't mean the global brands like Arniston Bay,
Kumala or Blossom Hill (which ...