A Delheim Wines vineyard at Klapmutskop Hill in South Africa’s Stellenbosch region. Delheim has committed all its acreage to the Biodiversity and Wine Initiative. A new biodiversity program is helping South Africa’s wine grape growers improve vineyard management and could ultimately help them distinguish their wines on international markets. South Africa has 9,600 native plant species adapted to thrive in the nutrient-poor soils of the Cape wine region, an area in the country’s southwest that’s home to 90 percent of South Africa’s 250,000 acres of vineyards. Many of the species here occur nowhere else in the country, winning the area […]