Welcome to the Ex Animo Wine Co Podcast: a series of interviews and discussions with winemakers and great minds from the world of wine.
In this episode, David Clarke chats with Winemag.co.za Editor and Wine Reviewer, Christian Eedes. This is the 4th annual Wine SONA (State of the Nation) discussion.
In it, David poses questions to Christian about the state of SA wine in 2025, such as:
- How do we get more South Africans to drink wine?
- Why vineyards are decreasing
- Foreign wines: why are they not necessarily better than South African wine?
*A video version of this interview is available on YouTube*
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Welcome to the Ex Animo Wine Co Podcast: a series of interviews and discussions with winemakers and great minds from the world of wine.
In this episode, David Clarke chats with Winemag.co.za Editor and Wine Reviewer, Christian Eedes. This is the 4th annual Wine SONA (State of the Nation) discussion.
In it, David poses questions to Christian about the state of SA wine in 2025, such as:
- How do we get more South Africans to drink wine?
- Why vineyards are decreasing
- Foreign wines: why are they not necessarily better than South African wine?
*A video version of this interview is available on YouTube*
Today on the podcast we have Christian Eedes of winemag.co.za – a wine website that was born out of a magazine published in South Africa from 1993 to 2011. Their tagline is “Everything to do with South African Fine Wine”.
He is, to my mind, one of the most important voices in South African wine criticism.
This week saw the annual State of the Nation Address (or SONA for short) by President Ramaphosa, and I wanted to get Christian’s opinions of the state of South African fine wine.
Christian is certainly one of the most knowledgeable and widely-tasted people in South African wine over the last 3 decades. He brings a context and a perspective that can only be gained over many years of submersion in an industry.
We last did one of these chats in February 2020 – just as the COVID pandemic was starting to develop – Link: https://www.exanimo.co.za/podcast/#1599999555612-1917a56b-e69c
Thank you for listening.
If you want to follow Christian – his website is winemag.co.za and he tweets at @ChristianEedes.
Ex Animo Wine Co.
Welcome to the Ex Animo Wine Co Podcast: a series of interviews and discussions with winemakers and great minds from the world of wine.
In this episode, David Clarke chats with Winemag.co.za Editor and Wine Reviewer, Christian Eedes. This is the 4th annual Wine SONA (State of the Nation) discussion.
In it, David poses questions to Christian about the state of SA wine in 2025, such as:
- How do we get more South Africans to drink wine?
- Why vineyards are decreasing
- Foreign wines: why are they not necessarily better than South African wine?
*A video version of this interview is available on YouTube*
