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Its World Cup Fever in South Africa and Rustenberg Wines have teamed up with the Starfish Great Hearts Foundation and a group of Scottish Samaritans, led by Colin Perry, who are taking underprivliged children to World Cup Games in South Africa, as well as organising a 5-a-side soccer tournament …
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Viticulturist Nico Walters and Dave Hutton talk about the concept of “hang time” on the vines and why the “units of sunshine” available to the grapes of Rustenberg help create the high quality expected of Rustenberg wines…
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Production Manager Randolph Christians talks to us about the 2010 pumpover schedule and how what happens to the yeast, grapes and juice during the different phases of fermentation….
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Simon and David get together in the vineyard and have a chat about the economics of running a wine farm and how most accountants will tell you to run a mile rather than start a winery. But for Simon the excitement of delivering the finished bottles of wine to consumers around the world is an attractive incentive….
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Dave Hutton takes us around the farm and catches up with Randolph, Nico, Simon, and the team as they work around the clock in the late summer heat in order to get the grapes safely into the cellar….
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Dave Hutton talks to Viticulturist Nico Walters about the importance of water in the vineyards, and when you want to make the vines “happy” and when you want them “not so happy”…Nico also talks about the importance of the vineyard workers to the final quality of the wine, and finally Dave takes a look at the level of one of the eleven dams on the farm…
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Viticulturist Nico Walters talks to Dave Hutton about how the team at Rustenberg combat wind damage in the vines, how many times they will move thru the vineyards to get the vines ready for harvest, and how to enhance the quality by managing the bunches…
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Dig deeper into the conversation with Viticulturist Nico Walters and Dave Hutton as Nico explains what it means to “capture sunlight” and the amount of work required…
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