by Old Vine | Aug 14, 2022 | Articles, Media Room
Written by David Kermode View origional article here. In 2002, inspired by the old vines she had seen on a trip to Europe, Rosa Kruger decided to seek out and try to save South Africa’s oldest vineyards. Twenty years later, the drive to record and preserve these...
by Old Vine | Aug 1, 2022 | Articles, Media Room
By Tamlyn Currin Today is the inaugural Old Vine Day. To celebrate, we begin a series focused on vineyards’ most venerable residents. Today’s offering is nothing if not topical for those of us in the northern hemisphere. Above, vines young to old trying to...
by Old Vine | Jul 20, 2022 | Articles, Media Room
The Old Vine Project (OVP) team announced today that they, their members, and wine lovers all over the South Africa and the world, will be celebrating the inaugural Old Vine Day this year on 01 August 2022 (and every year after from now on), this being the founding...
by Old Vine | Jun 20, 2022 | Articles, Media Room
Dis Internationale Chenin Blancdag op 17 Junie, maar dis eintlik hier in Suid-Afrika waar dié kultivar behoorlik gevier word. Lees die artikel oor Chenin Blanc feesviering deur Maryke Roberts op Maroela Media...
by Old Vine | Jun 20, 2022 | Articles, Media Room
D’Amato & Szabo: Wine Thieves Listen to the podcast here. In this episode: how cataloguing old vines in South Africa has raised standards for fair employment, and sustainable farming and may just prove the key to solving the problem of the country’s most...
by Old Vine | Jun 10, 2022 | Articles, Media Room
The Old Vine Project (OVP) has been a game changer for South African wines. When viticulturalist Rosa Kruger began searching for old vines in remote areas of the Cape, and compiling a list of them, there was little information available; she drove herself around and...
