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Appendix A Mary-Lou Nash CWM Dissertation Questionnaire 1) Completed by: Most common answers Wine brand Over two dozen responses 2) What is your full time job? Huge range from architect to farmer 3) When did you start making wine? Most within past 5-10 years Why? Passion and interest from childhood or interest from wine courses 4) How much did you make when you started? Many a couple hundred cases How much do you make now? Many up to 1000 cases What is your goal production? Most maximum would be a couple thousand cases 5) Did you train in winemaking? Most self taught If no, where did you get your info? Internet What sites? Refer to Useful Websites Appendix B Books Which books? Refer to Further Reading Appendix C Friends Who? Many garagistes made friends with trained winemakers for advice Have you done vintages overseas? No If so, where? Visited wine regions on holiday 6) Where do you make your wine? Is the building insulated and/or is cooling available? Yes 7) Do you have your own vineyard or do you buy in your grapes? Most all buy in If buy in, from whom, where and why? Huge variety of areas 8) What varieties do you make and why the choice? Lots of Shiraz and red, Chenin Blanc, Viognier 56
9) Briefly, how do you make your wine? Hands on, naturally as possible, focus on quality rather than quantity Who helps make your wine? Family and friends What equipment do you use? Own small crusher, press, pump, barrels. Some use hired equipment from bigger cellars What additions do you add to your wine? SO2 Everyone used at crush and after malolactic fermentation Tartaric Most tried to avoid Yeast Many used wild yeast rather than commercial Yeast Nutrients Generally ammonia as a nitrogen source 10) Where do you store your wine? Mainly a combination of new and used barrels 11) How often do you analyze your wine? At crush, after malolactic and before bottling 12) How do you bottle? Mobile Bottling 13) How do you label? Mobile Labeling 14) Where did the idea/name of your brand come from? A lot from family names 15) When did you start marketing? Still weak point for most How do you market? Word of mouth Do you enter wine competitions? Most don’t because consider it a lottery and expensive Do you participate in wine shows? A few do shows that have special prices for garagistes, such as the JoBurg Wine Show. Most don’t due to high costs involved Where do you sell your wines? 80% local, 20% export 16) Is your wine certified? Yes Do you belong to IPW? Bought in grapes usually do Do you belong to BWI? No 57
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I, Mary-Louise Nash, declare that t
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Page 63 and 64: Appendix D Suppliers The following
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Page 69 and 70: Freight Forwarders/Export JF Hilleb
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