Crisis - if these claims can be substantiated with fact - then I find the following despicable.
Cape wine workers paid less than R60 a day
(I doubt M&G would publicize this without some basis of fact)
The study from War on Want claims that thousands of employees working on wine-producing farms in South Africa face low pay [...]

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I have a new side project on the go:
Obscura
It’s a joint venture between myself and a good friend  - we don’t use our camera’s enough and now we have a place to feature our photographs (and pretend that we’re pro’s for fifteen minutes).
Feel free to comment on and analyse the pics.

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To everyone who takes time to read the random wine ramblings here on The Cru - Merry Christmas!
Have a fantastic day with friends and family, drink lot’s of good wine - and smash that extra mince pie in your face right now!
Ho ho ho.

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I love wine to death and as a result I write about it - but what do I do for a living? I mean something’s got to pay for all the wine!
Well I work for a company called Buongiorno which according to our website is the following:
BUONGIORNO is a trendsetting, independent mobile media and technology [...]

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Picked this up on Spittoon and think it’s quite a fun exercise and remarkably accurate - although I wouldn’t have picked Merlot as the wine I wanted to be!

You Are Merlot

Smooth, confident, and popular - you’re the type most likely to order wine for the whole group.
You seem to breeze through life on your intuition [...]

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