South African wineries report a great—if dry—year

Winemakers in the world’s Southern Hemisphere regions have an advantage on their Northern Hemisphere comrades—while grapes are still hanging on the vines up north, down south they are tasting the first wines of the 2015 vintage. Here is the first of our Southern Hemisphere Harvest Reports for 2015, a dispatch from South Africa’s Cape wine regions. The good news: South African producers were nearly universal in their effusive praise for the 2015 growing season.