Even South Africa’s famous wildlife is conspiring against the country’s wine industry. At a dinner in Cape Town this week, Accolade’s head winemaker for South Africa, Gerhard Swart, revealed that baboons, driven hungry by a three-year drought, had eaten up to five tonnes of Accolade’s grape harvest.

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