As South Africa Lifts Ban on Wine Sales, Many Vintners Fear It’s Too Late

JOHANNESBURG—South Africa’s $1.5 billion wine marketplace is reeling soon after a series of pandemic-induced shocks, which include successive bans on the sale of liquor totaling some 14 weeks.

The country’s Chardonnays and Cabernet Sauvignons have become domestic staples globe-vast, and wineries centered in the rolling farmlands close to the Western Cape are among South Africa’s most effective and worthwhile industries. As liquor sales resumed nationwide this week, many of these organizations have emerged battered, and some could possibly not endure.

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