Latest Old Vine Project News

By Britt Karlsson View origional article here. In 2016 that Rosa Kruger and André Morgenthal started The Old Vine Project (OVP) in South Africa to find and care for old, sometimes abandoned, vineyards and to draw attention to the value of old vines. Today, OVP has 130 members who each year produce over 250 different wines from Certified Heritage Vineyards (CHV). Another exciting project is now underway, namely the launch of virus-free clones, Heritage Selection clones. Viruse

By Tim Atkin. Read the full article here. Our 2022 Decanter Hall of Fame recipient’s enthusiasm for South Africa’s old vines runs deep into the nation’s heritage, and her own. The devotion of this self-styled ‘farm manager’ to her cause has set an example to the whole of the wine world. Growing up on a farm in the northern Transvaal, Rosa Kruger was surrounded by nature and the perilous immensity of the veldt. From the age of five, she’d regularly pack a bag with food and w

By Michel Fridjhon View the origional article here. As the year stumbles towards the first Cape Wine show since the pandemic, I’m beginning to wonder whether we – and by that, I mean those people who think about how the industry markets itself to the world – have not fallen into the convenient trap of defining our USP in terms of our most visible high-profile players. In short, have we defaulted to the idea that what the Cape brings the world is rockstar winemakers working

By Glenneis Kriel View the origional article here. To combat the effects of climate change, South African wine farmers will have to plan the establishment of new vineyards more carefully, especially if they want them to achieve heritage status. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has predicted that climate change could wipe out more than half of the world’s vineyards by 2050. At an Old Vine Project (OVP) workshop held recently near Stellenbosch, OVP co-founder Rosa

By Tamlyn Currin Today is the inaugural Old Vine Day. To celebrate, we begin a series focused on vineyards' most venerable residents. Today's offering is nothing if not topical for those of us in the northern hemisphere. Above, vines young to old trying to withstand the extreme heat. Read the full article here.

The Old Vine Project (OVP) team announced today that they, their members, and wine lovers all over the South Africa and the world, will be celebrating the inaugural Old Vine Day this year on 01 August 2022 (and every year after from now on), this being the founding date of the OVP in 2016. Rosa Kruger, vineyard manager and founder of the OVP, began to catalogue old vines in 2002. Since the formal launch of the OVP six years ago, the organisation has gone from strength to str

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D’Amato & Szabo: Wine Thieves Listen to the podcast here. In this episode: how cataloguing old vines in South Africa has raised standards for fair employment, and sustainable farming and may just prove the key to solving the problem of the country’s most prevalent vine virus. We continue investigating the topic of old vines, this time from a different perspective, as we look to the Certified Heritage Vineyards of South Africa. We hope you’ve built up an appetite for the subj

The Old Vine Project (OVP) has been a game changer for South African wines. When viticulturalist Rosa Kruger began searching for old vines in remote areas of the Cape, and compiling a list of them, there was little information available; she drove herself around and wrote each vineyard down by hand. Fast forward to 2016 and the Old Vine Project was launched, Rosa was joined on her quest by Andre Morgenthal and the status of old vines in South Africa was formalised. View an in

By IWSC View the original article here. This week, members of the IWSC’s expert judging panels are in South Africa, tasting hundreds of wines from across the country. Together with Elizabeth Kelly MW, Victoria Mason, Matteo Montone MS and David Kermode, our judging committee member and Master of Wine, Ali Cooper is at Paarl’s Diamant Estate with local judges tasting through 2022 entrants from all across South Africa. A very quick catch up following the second day of tasting i