One of winemaking’s ugly dark sides is how little is paid to the non-winemaker labor. You see it in California wineries with Mexicans, Croatian wineries with Bosnians, and as has been pointed out a bit as of late, white South African wineries with black South Africans. Jancis Robinson talks about this in a recent article wherein a Czech wine merchant took a bold stance: Bidding is always fierce for the most distinctive lot in the annual Cape Winemakers Guild auction, the giant 18-litre bottle filled with a special blend of […]
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