Wine farming

How Cape winemakers helped feed hungry families during lockdown

As people in the wine industry found new ways to overcome the Covid crisis, some, like winemaker Carmen Stevens, also gave a hand to those in greater need

18 April 2021 - 00:00 By bobby jordan

There have been several notable harvests fermenting in winemaker Carmen Stevens’s cellar, but the one that mattered most whizzed through in just 24 hours — emergency food for children left hungry because of the Covid lockdown...

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