WINETECH Technical Yearbook 2020

FOREWORD The year 2020 will forever be imprinted in the minds of people all over the world. The Covid-19 pandemic has left its seen and unseen marks on everyone. Some businesses prospered, but most suffered losses. The South African wine industry unfortunately falls in the latter category. It was all about adapting, changing, and rearranging business as usual. At Wine- tech, we also needed to change our ways of managing our day-to-day business, which included our knowledge transfer initiatives. Whilst various in-person events had to move to online, or to not at all, the Winetech Technical section published in WineLand Magazine could fortunately continue as always (albeit with a slightly trimmed budget). This yearbook com- bines all the technical articles published in WineLand during 2020 in an easy to navigate e-book. We hope that the knowl- edge provided in this book will assist the South African wine industry, even if just in a small way, to move forward and to re- cover from these crazy times. Kind regards The Winetech Team

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