economy
In a picturesque valley two hours’ drive south-east of Cape Town, Berene Sauls is running behind schedule. The crush from her latest harvest was delayed, bottling often slows to a standstill and she's been forced to repackage badly labelled batches of pinot noir and chardonnay.
The culprit? An energy crisis that’s causing rolling blackouts across South Africa, impacting industries from mining to agriculture.
“It’s stressful,” said Sauls, who founded Tesselaarsdal Wines in 2015 and has been in
