South Africa

01.23.23

Carbonics an ’emblem for the new wave of [Cape] winemakers’

Ever wondered about the science behind carbonic maceration? Malu Lambert gets into it in her article “The quantum mechanics of carbonics,” with a focus on wines from Eben Sadie and Lukas Van Loggerenberg. Lambert also highlights the impetus for the whole-cluster movement. “In South Africa whole-cluster winemaking takes on another shape outside of winery walls: it was also an emblem, a banner held aloft, for the new wave of winemakers coming out of global isolation,” she writes. Read more here.