date:Mar 27, 2013
But if a trend toward bulk shipping continues, the music of the Rostberg bottling plant may be about to stop.
Set in lush vineyards in Stellenbosch, one of South Africa's most famous wine communities, Rostberg has been operating below capacity for the past two years due to a shift to shipping wine in 24,000-litre polypropylene flexitanks.
The trend has spread through other New World wine-producing countries like Chile, Argentina, Australia and New Zealand, which all have distant markets and, i