Timothy L. O'Brien, Columnist

Mother Nature Is Coming for Your Cabernet

If you want to be a happy winemaker, don't go to bed at night worried about the things you can't control.

July 4, 2023 at 9:00 AM UTC

Timothy L. O'Brien is senior executive editor of Bloomberg Opinion. A former editor and reporter for the New York Times, he is author of “TrumpNation: The Art of Being the Donald.”

“I’m getting a lot of heat from this one.” — “I’m getting a lot of heat from this one.”
Photographer: Si Barber/Bloomberg

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During a recent trip to South Africa, I visited one of the world’s most spectacular wine regions: the Stellenbosch, outside Cape Town. At one of the area’s oldest vineyards, Rust en Vrede, I met with the owner, Jean Engelbrecht.