Free State Wine Mogul Gets R4million Donation from Motsepe Fund
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Free state Phantom 6 wine owner Vincent Makafu was graced with a 4 million Rand funding hosted at the Convention centre in Houghton..Since the 1970s, the dominant narrative about founding new wineries has gone like this: Someone with a pile of money from another career spends untold millions on expensive vineyard land and spectacular facilities, in order to fulfill a dream to make (read: hire someone to make) great wine--thus the currency of the famous one-liner about making a small fortune in the wine business by starting with a large one. Now it's more likely to be the tale of a passionate, young, self-trained winemaker who maxes out the credit cards and the home equity loan to buy top-notch grapes and make a thousand cases of snazzy wine in a converted factory space on the low-rent side of town. The reason for the change is simple: money. The capital outlays required for doing it the old-fashioned way--buying land and building a winery--are prohibitive; possible for only a fraction of those interested in making wine. In a sense, the success of the founding generation of modern winemakers has frozen the next generation out of the market. Buying and developing 20 acres of vineyard land, enough for 3,000-4,000 cases of wine, at R500,000-R705,000 per acre--if you could find it at that price--and R300,000 per acre for land preparation, irrigation and trellis, means starting with R1.5m to R5 million in expenditures before a single grape is picked. Add the cost of building and equipping a bare-bones winery--at least another R1 million--the recurring costs of wine production, and the salaries of two to four employees, and you're out somewhere between R2 and R3 million before a single bottle is sold.
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