SOUTH African winemaker Marlize Jacobs looks out across the parched brown earth that sustains her award-winning vines, surveying the effects of the water crisis ravaging Cape Town and surrounding areas.
“It’s the strangest thing – I think vines like to suffer. When the berries are shrinking, there’s more concentration of flavours,” she said, describing the impact on her crop of the worst drought in 100 years.
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