Chasing Winelands
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Building Opportunity Through Wine (opens the original)
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There are approximately 2,800 wine farms in South Africa. Of those, only around 60 are Black-owned, that’s just over 2%.1This is the legacy of apartheid.The political laws banning Black land ownership have been dismantled, but the economic structures are very much still standing. It only takes about five minutes after leaving Cape Town International Airport before the townships come into view and the effects become impossible to miss.I know. That’s a heavy way to start an article about wine. But
The Art of Paying Attention (opens the original)
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When I think about wine and winemaking, the first words that come to mind are art, science, history, connection. But after sitting down with Cage Wine founder and winemaker Keiji Sato to hear his story, a new word came to mind: observation.At first, it felt like an ‘aha moment,’ then it felt almost obvious how important observation is in wine. But so often, in both winemaking and tasting, we impose our own ideas onto a wine instead of simply paying attention to what it’s telling us.Keiji’s path
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