‘Climate change is going to have a big impact in this country.’ Those are the words of viticulturist Rosa Kruger, who has been at the cutting edge of next generation viticulture in South Africa’s Western Cape over the last two decades.
‘What was predicted 10 years ago is now real. We have terrible floods, extreme heat and severe drought.’
Kruger has been warning about climate change for years but the drought of 2015-2018, when Cape Town came perilously close to no longer being able to supply mains water to residents, was a wake-up call for the industry.
Vines, deprived of the irrigation they relied on, died in their tens of thousands.
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