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July 21st, 2006 posted by Alison Pearce
Wine Spectator Online
Stirring the Lees with James Molesworth
July 21, 2006
I sat down with Bruce Jack the other day, to get caught up on things in South Africa. Jack, 36, is the owner and winemaker at Flagstone winery, and he’s what I consider a typical South African vintner: quality oriented, producing a moderate volume (about 70,000 [...]
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July 21st, 2006 posted by Bruce Jack
Businesses fly because profit margins are comfortable. The wine industry isn’t one of those. No, somehow there’s a strange beauty that drives it. Even the really awe-inspiring, big guns with shelf-flooding brands like Blossom Hill can’t continually boast double digit profitability – the wine industry isn’t therefore very attractive to stock market quarterly reporting.
Short-term strategies [...]
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