Wal-Mart Wine Selling Is Key to South Africa’s U.S. Push

South Africa, the eighth-biggest wine producer, is seeking to regain a foothold in the U.S. market lost to imports from Australia to Argentina by promoting brands at Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Whole Foods Market Inc.

“We used to have a quite substantial market presence in the U.S. and it went all the way down,” George Monyemangene, the consul general of South Africa in New York, said in an interview at Bloomberg’s headquarters. “Maybe we were not as responsive as we should have been to newcomers.”