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March 11th, 2008 — Africana
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And the quality production from Zoopy keeps coming! Zoopy has released the 3rd video in the Zoopy series of Stormhoek Stories. Now we get into more detail. Still very interesting to watch.
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There should be one more video to come. So keep calling back.
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March 10th, 2008 — Global
Wow! The guys at Zoopy are producing quality videos about The Stormhoek Story.
Here we go with the 2nd in the series of Stormhoek Stories and we begin to get technical. Very interesting to see and hear what happens to the grapes.
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This is so informative and provides us bloggers an insight into the operational aspects of a winery. Great to see.
There are more videos coming. So keep calling back.
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February 27th, 2008 — Global
There I was minding my own when the photo above leapt at me. It is a fabulous photo of a vineyard in the Barossa Valley, Australia.
So what I hear you ask, has it got to with Stormhoek?
February 24th, 2008 — Africana
The collapse last year of Orbital Wines, UK based distributor for South African wines abroad has serious economic impacts for the effected vineyards of the Western Cape’s Stormhoek locale. In total the vineyards have lost revenues amounting to R6,000,000. This is a very large amount of money for a labour intensive industry to kiss goodbye. There is no hope of a dividend from the liquidation of Orbital.
The economy for the region may be severley harmed, but the worst and saddest legacy of Orbital’s demise will be the human impact.
Vineyard workers will have to be laid off unless some quick & effective cash injections to contribute toward operational costs is found. Unlike the UK where if you get laid off work, you can make your way to the local Job Centre, sign on and get state benefits paid out to you each week, the vineyard workers like Manus, Maxwell and Ludwe (in main photo above), do not have the luxury and security of anything remotely like this to fall back on in the event they cannot earn a wage to keep their families fed, housed, clothed and the kids educated.
We are asking you to dig deep into your Big Love for SA wines and help keep the affected Western Cape vineyards operating. How? By buying a Stormhoek vine.
Click here or below on the icon to read Stormhoek’s complete article.
