western media, i'm, it's nice, finally, fact checking t as is that, how you see it on what kind of alteration, what kind of change made that 9 meg? well, i think they have a problem with reality. reality is colliding with their narrative and i'll give you an example. i would surprised to hear judge nicole autonomy say that he thought 70 percent or something. majority of american people thought we should still keep arming ukraine. i can tell you that is absolutely not true with even on the streets in very liberal areas. so i would say 90 percent of the american people oppose the continuation of hostilities. they want to stop sending weapons over there. we have a crisis over here, but because of the media, the people who want to continue the war believe that they are in the majority. and so they're, we're at a point now where reality is colliding with the narrative. and it's also causing

these people to make terrible miscalculations about what they might be able to get away with, as we saw in canada with the nazi getting to standing ovations. and kind of also get your take on something quite intriguing maids. and bice are rushing through zillow. and despite openly supporting the administration and the spokes person talked about corruption openly among the ukrainian politicians in, in the video. are you surprised by that? you know, that's not really, i mean, it is corrupt. i where see, this is again what i mean. the vast majority of people don't appreciate thievery, bribery, mass, murder, torture. these kind of hideous crimes, but they're also not that aggressive about it. so the people who are aggressive for

vicious or nasty as i think one of the people i think it was the c 14 group in the my don said, well, the, the nazis or the white supremacists, we were only 8 percent, but we were able to dominate the dynamic, so you have a situation where people who have a corrupt, destructive evil agenda seem to get the upper hand ultimately that doesn't prevail, how it ends. i don't know. i think the worst situation is extremely dangerous because i fear certain people in the united states are still very diluted. and unfortunately, there are people desperately trying to have bite and or some replacement for bite and when the next election. and they may believe a, an impossible ukrainian victory is necessary for that speaking live and the program independent us senate candidates, diana, sorry, donna many sites thank you. will love is where we leave the news are for another,

but they close as it's 1 o'clock over at the cost of everything studios, but they're not printing. they're calculating done. press the um the going ahead, the the mankind have been firm and tang grades into wines for thousands of years. ancient culture do use wines as means for communicating with their gods. and even today we can find references to wine as a status symbol. it is often portrayed as

a drink of choice for the culture of the educated, the wealthy and sophisticated man. but trends are changing as globalization has brought about the democratization of wind. i'm because the i in today we're going to be exploring the wonderful world of winds from the top producers to the top consumers, the 4 countries, italy, spain, france, and the u. s. produced more than half the wine in the world. italy produces over 44000000 heck, the leaders of wine a year, followed by stain at 35000000. heck, the leaders, france at $34.00, and the us a $24.00. heck, the leaders and these 4 countries are not surprisingly, also huge. consumers of wine as well, but if we break down consumption by capital, portugal is actually the biggest winner at $51.00 leaders per capita,

followed by italy and france. while traditionally, wind has been cultivated in europe, production and consumption has been expanding into the southern hemisphere. south africa is now is that a largest wind producer in the world, and the 6 largest exporter of wine to lately as 300 year old wind industry is being crushed by rolling blackouts that are delaying harvesting bottling and labeling. the interrupted power also impacts the watering of the vines with stresses out the plans and reduces the size and number of fruit. this will have a big impact on the producer profitability, as harvest will be lower ones harvested, the grades can become overripe or damaged if refrigeration or climate control is interrupted. the power cuts can lead to temperature fluctuations. weekends, which can adversely affect the fermentation process, resulting in all flavor barrels. the south african wine industry as

a result have increased wind prices by 7 percent. this year. the wine industry contributed more than $3100000000.00 to the nation's gross domestic product last year, with exports worth $10000000000.00 round. the 2023 harvest is estimated at $1200000.00 tons, which is 14 percent smaller than last year, is due to a lack of electricity in intensely irrigated areas. officials are now concerned that irritated wine, great production isn't sustainable. if low chatting gets worse, the u. k continues to be south africa's largest wind export market and bought the wider global trend by increasing their imports for wind by 8 percent last year. despite the higher prices. even though south african wines are mostly consumed locally, there is one winemaker trying to make it a global trend. we are joined by award winning winemaker, carmen stevens from carmen stevens wines to explore some more of the african wine

market. and so comments what brought you into the wine business and made you a successful award winning winemaker in south africa? so what got me into wine was reading, reading, reading, novels, reading. so i come from a very poor background with one list of a part of my humphrey. but i've been a new about one because wanted to view the negative impact on now communities. what attracted me to one was i think, appealing, so it comes with wine. no, it's everything is green, everything is beautiful. you know, it's amazing people, these amazing food, wine, amazing regions of people. that's really is if i think back now that is probably

what she gave me before was the community what i grew up in. indeed, an aspect i liked, i liked what wine they proceeded to to me in those knowns. what does the future hold for a south african wine industry? the future will serve as a good thing in terms of wines. this is quite bright to be some of the young men coming in a j t dynamic new younger generation of one make us coming into into the sick to a kind of a lot fakes. last experiment they tied to showcase what's africa can offer. we are based on lots of focus on shannon blanca, not to mention of long great other south africa and how to improve on what you really have. so i think this new generation of looking and approaching one see different. and i think it's going to add definitely

to, i'll say i'll growth in the international market space. and how does the cost of producing wine very across different wind producing regions around the world? it's very difficult question on to to the question, but what i can tell you is that in south africa, the so many patients, let's meet as full outlines and i feel this is my personal opinion. you said the world is, was too hot in south africa because we have to have so many patients in place and what that comes out is equal all we in our winemaking out, if people do, we treat our workers. what are, what is the working conditions, which is perfect? i want to make it very clear that's of africa has always been on top of its game

when it comes to conditions of work and looking at what people gets paid. but i think in every country you get, you'll, you'll, you'll, you'll whine, some of the one people that does not conform. it's not just in south africa and gets south africa is being, you know, almost the focus is more on what is needed to in the south african wine industry than what is positive and stuff that people mind industry. and that brings us about how difficult is the world when it looks at south africa in terms of pricing or phone lines because we make amazing wines. all winds f o x o let deliver it in terms of quantity. yet we,

i do not see the same reason you coming back to this country because the rest of the world look at us and say, but it's a federal country. and we can get away with pain as little as possible for amazing. one. know if you come to me and you're awesome me how if equal you are things you need to of oscar. so how, so how is the cold is to buy because if you can sell a south african product in your for lease money, oh, you buy for lease money and get you off putting that on your shelf so much. i, a monk, how difficult is that from your site and i use it is the will the part of the problem of south africa with people not being treated fee in terms of a living wage?

what is the world role in making that more of an ethical training what you call the trading tubs? because if you seem to not just come from out of out of pocket, do you know that how, how do i was? i'm flipping a fines because if sustainability is gone, i don't we keep on producing winds the world one, all winds the consumer want one, but we're not getting paid for what we deliver. and that for me is the critical point here. and that for me, says we need to speak to the consumer this, the consumer understand the would difficult. and the problem in being difficult to books, not just in south africa in argentina,

the intended and all these countries, we wind up being bored at such a lower price points. and so much higher price point in who's making that money. because it's decently, in all case, lots of other specific regions known for producing wise more efficiently resulting in lower production costs. so south africa is one of those countries we labor is to spill the cheap. so we have a huge workforce. we have a huge unemployment fact find making in many cases, seasonal thing. so we would size of africa in terms of what we can do with our labor force makes our product probably

a little bit less costly. but that doesn't mean it is the face. you know, the places in the, at the, we over the level, the t we, we have the ability to, to bring in people or people, they hands sort of thing off with the sun that some of the people in the sun. so the fact that we have a workforce that can do that, and really what they call a minimum wage makes us one of those countries when it comes to costing company, you know, more affordable. now in the past, friends in italy, we're known as having the best and most premium wines. is that still the case or is there another country that's giving it a run for its money? i think is the world evolves and it has $1.00 microsoft traveling. and she has

a knowledge sharing experience. it's one more the country select south africa is coming to the full i think that's on the quantity perspective. we can compete against anybody. if you choose, obviously these different quality products. but if you put this up in any quality practice against another kind of feedback util the like funds. i see. i think the world will be shop. that's what we really are producing and how how more affordable the same quality product is from a company that's an advocate comparison to utility and front. i don't think we have to send back to anybody. i think we make. we are producing amazing wines. and i

think retailers of noticing that's nothing that is behind a century huge inquiry into something kind of want what countries are experiencing significant growth in their wine industries and what's contributing to this growth. so i believe that new zealand is really, really booming, using it's prompting new when it's more often it's using and it's really investing in new wineries. it's often coming in and not, not small, not small. one is a huge establishment, you know, um and, and the reason for that is because they sold a much of a huge request for new zealand, especially for solving your block in the style of something you want that they produce. that said, douglas, leasing that south africa is fall behind in terms of quantity. no,

i think it's just a market themselves quite well. and i would say on the top statement is quite extend outstanding. some of your plans and because of that investment in, that's the sort of the consumer for that product. they have the ability to grow. they have the ability to these long new lines in. okay, so you must pull it up because we don't get, we know what people are willing to pay for the product doesn't make us really sustainable. thank you so much comment, but please stick around. winemaker, carmen stevens will stay with us right after the break. and when we come back in recent years, wine has captured the pallets of age and consumers worldwide. don't go away. the,

i look forward to talking to you all that technology should work for people. a robot must obey the orders given by human beings, except we're so shorter is that conflict with the 1st law show your mind, anticipation. we should be very careful about our traditional intelligence at the point, obviously is to makes a trust rather than fit the various jobs. i mean, with the artificial intelligence we have so many with him in the a robot must protect his phone, existence was on the well wine. if you pick what is in the western world, there are many asian lines. but there's

a very good reason for that. most asian countries are closer to the equator where they experience more tropical climates with plenty of rainfall. this is not conducive to the production of grapes. also, many countries have extreme changes in temperature in climate with monsoons and tie fluids. so because of this, wine is predominantly a western or european alcoholic beverage. but in recent years of globalization, wind has begun to capture the interest of the growing middle class. china has quickly become one of the largest consumers of mine and in recent years have also started to produce wine as well. and this is not an easy feat as the vines must be buried through the winter in order to stay alive during the extremely cold and dry winter's in. china is rags. 9th, in terms of wind consumption by country. and for years it's turned to australian wind quickly becoming its biggest buyer and importing 40 percent of australian's

total wine exports. but in 2020, after the australian prime minister at the time called for an investigation into cove its origin, beijing became furious at them for playing political games, meant to assign blame and response. china impose a punitive tariff on 116-2218 percent on australian wine. and the country's biggest overseas market vanished almost immediately. sales to china plummet is 97 percent that 1st year. australian, great growers are still suffering today as a result. as this year there is even less demand for red wine. farmers are facing a choice between selling grapes, a huge loss or keeping costs to a minimum and not even harvesting. and while many are focusing on the markets in the us tile and singapore and malaysia, none of them are big enough to fill the gap left by china. there's still about

a 25 percent surplus of national wind gray prop with no obvious destination in china has instead turned to south african and the us wines to phil is demand. meanwhile, japan is leading asians nation in wine in ports in 2022. what is saw a 31 percent increase in the value of imported wine and 8.9 percent rise in volume . the japan wine market is projected to exhibit a growth rate of 6.3 percent to 2028. as a changing consumer preferences for western beverages and rising wind tours and drives the market. japanese consumers have been shifting away from traditional alcoholic beverages like soccer in beer and instead of bracing wine, especially among the younger generation who are more health conscious. friends in chalet and wine are the largest share of japanese imports of wine at 29 and 26 percent, respectively for this and more or less bringing again award winning winemaker,

carmen stevens from carmen stevens wines. so how do market demands and consumer preferences influence the world, the trajectory of different wind producing countries? it speaks to use the limited space of the month for the product that speaks to the growth the consumer once it's given we in the world people one so, so looking for new zealand, the, the new zealand style, some of your blog coming out of the country and that's makes more and more people wanted big investment for them be approved for the absolutely. and what are some of the challenges faced by wine makers in different regions that impact their production costs? so i think the food can visit different challenges. in our case, we had a challenge with war to not so long ago, you know, resources in terms of 40 electricity for other countries. it might be that they have

a bad. yeah. and they have to mitigate that. but i do believe that seems to balance himself out of it again, coming back to something i think the biggest challenge is probably we we, we have to buckle supplies and so we want to bring in bottles. it's actually extra cost. you know, so i'll challenge is how to get how product to democracy in the most efficient cost efficient way. and because if you take, if you take a shipment from south africa to europe, it takes about 6 weeks. that these all challenge we as in your, you know, and fantastic trying to treat them as a safety and at the same place. makes the, the flow of getting the product to the market so much easy and much more cost cost effective funding. how do foreign investors influence the wind production or the

industry? so these, these being in flux, but the stevie growth for a city, interest of foreign investors into south africa, into the windings. because you kids really amazing, amazing deal was in south africa. it's if you can be it to what it would cost you to have that in phones or anywhere else in the world. it's like a small section of the price people pay your so i think a lot of interfaces are seeing the potential in south africa. they see that if it's, i mean it's like i said, the affections price and we have different leasing more investments specifically in south african agriculture and then for wine.

good for us. i think i think it's fantastic that will this very looking into some africa for that, you know, for the future for, for growth in this, in the south african wine industry. and i, i hope that this that would open more markets for some wines, because lots of people that's using these things really has access to walk. and if they can take the south african the product out, it's a move mancha to give it to move presence, fantastic. for us and carmen, how has the rise of e commerce platforms impacted wine, sales and distribution? absolutely, and i think the best example of registering cove, you know, suddenly enough, you know, but as of africa for, for quite some time we will. okay. now, so ones, so the response will close in. so what happened was that the wine res, via nice,

we need to put something else in motion. yeah. and a lot of them launched that forms online platforms and sold one online. that was to be delivered often the restrictions was lifted, so the online text forms as really boomed and scope. but it also showed the winds that was probably not up to date with the new technology in terms of the intimate how to promote themselves and the, but much more effective way. it's a cheaper way that we're using social media to also help that on. and suddenly more and more people are using social media and the e commerce platforms and they are seeing really a sort of trust fund which is fantastic. thank you so much,

carmen for all your time today to globally whine is a category that is in slow decline with fewer and fewer people drinking less wine every year. well, economic uncertainties are leading wind consumers to come back on discretionary spending. it seems at premium wines are still performing significantly better than their lower price counterparts. one of the biggest global trends in the drink sector is moderation moderation rates are the highest among the younger wind consumers with the age group below 34, significantly more likely to reduce or alcohol consumption in some way. however low alcohol wine and sparkling wines are growth markets in areas like the u. s. germany, japan, and the u. k. so it seems like the wine industry will have to pivot in order to accommodate the taste of the younger generation in order to avoid being the biggest loser. i'm christy. i thanks for watching and we'll see you right back here next

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