2014 Southern Hemisphere Harvest Report: South Africa
Winespectator.com/.- A first look at vintage quality down south, with eyewitness reports from growers and winemakers. Ready to taste the first wines of 2014? While vines are just flowering in Europe and North America, the Southern Hemisphere has picked, crushed and fermented this year’s crop. Vintners in South Africa report a wet and wild year. A rainy spring produced a lot of grapes, but a nice dry spell in February allowed whites to ripen. But then the rains came back,…