A Perfect Pinotage Pairing: Wine Farmer Philanthropy in South Africa
Thursday 21 July, 2016 - 11:38
Let me start by saying I wanted to write an energising piece about the increasing predominance of wine farmers linked with philanthropy – and it would probably have ended up sounding a tad romantic, with visions of committed philanthropists making funding decisions to change South Africa’s entrenched dynamics of poverty and injustice, while sipping on a glass of world-renowned pinotage as the sun sets over their vineyards and workers bring in the last of the day’s grape harvest.
This blog hasn’t turned out quite that way.