Probably the most difficult thing about writing a blog is to choose a good header. In this case, "Under the Weather" does not refer to our poor Cellar master's Laryngitis of last week, but rather the fact that we are getting some rain again in the growing season. Since Thursday we had 11mm rain.
The thing that you must understand is that the South African wine industry had a really difficult year last year with regards to fungus. Traditionally the Western Cape is a winter rainfall region, but as of the past three years we are getting lots of rain in the spring and summer time. This creates perfect circumstances for the explosion of fungus if not controlled preventative.
Call it global warming, call it shifting weather patterns, call it what you will, but the fact is that the weather had shifted a month on, even in summer. This calls for adjustment on ground level, but hey, how is it that humans have lived on this planet for so long? We adapted.
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