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Stellenbosch University's Department of Political Science & The Embassy of Japan in South Africa invites you to join: ​

​​A webinar on

The appeal of​ South African wine market and the Japanese wine market

Date: Friday, 26 November 2021

Time: 09h00-10h20 (CAT)​

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In this webinar, as a pair to the webinar on Japanese SAKE, we will focus on South African Wine. Speakers will introduce the specificity and diversity of South African wines and how the Japanese market and consumers receive them. 

NB: Simultaneous English/Japanese translation will be made available during this session. 


PROGRAMME

Moderator            Prof. Scarlett Cornelissen, Department of Political Science, Stellenbosch University


09h00-09h55      Delightful diversity: the expression of terroir in South African wines

                              Dr Marianne McKay, Senior Lecturer in Oenology at Stellenbosch University

                              Introduction of Provenances and Wineries

                              - Wellington: Mischa Estate 

                                  Professor Kobus Hunter, Special Scientist, Agricultural Research Council of South Africa

                                       Mr Andrew Barns, Proprietor, Mischa Estate

                                      View presentation here

                              -  Constantia: Groot Constantia​ 

                                 Mr Boela Gerber, Winemaker

                                View presentation here

                             - Stellenbosch: Deux Fréres 

                                 Mr Retief du Toit

                                 View presentation here

                             - Swartland: Allesverloren

                                 Mr Wilhelm de Vries, Winemaker​

                                       View presentation here

                            - Robertson: Springfield Estate​

                                Mrs Jenna Bruwer Kruger, Marketing manager, Springfield Estate

                                    View presentation here


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09h55-10h25     The Japanese wine market and the Japanese consumer (Q&A)

                             Ms Yasuko Nagoshi, Representative of WANDS 

                            (the international wines & spirits magazine   for the trade-in Japan)

10h25-10h30      Conclusion 

                            Prof Scarlett Cornelissen & HE Ambassador of Japan


SPEAKER BIO'S

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Norio Maruyama His Excellency Mr Norio Maruyama is Ambassador of Japan to South Africa. Mr. Maruyama entered the Japan Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1983 after completing studies at the University of Tokyo. During an illustrious diplomatic career he served in missions in France, Cambodia (including as Ambassador) and the European Union. He was Minister, and later Ambassador of the Japan Mission to the European Union. Aside from these diplomatic postings, Mr. Maruyama also served in various capacities in the Japan Ministry of Foreign Affairs, including as director-general of the African Affairs department. Mr. Maruyama has been Ambassador to South Africa since January 2019.’


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Scarlett Cornelissen is Professor in Political Science at Stellenbosch University. Her research centres on Africa in the global order, with a specialist focus on diplomacy and economic relations between Japan and Africa. She has held fellowships with the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, as well as at Kyoto University and Tokyo University of Foreign Studies in Japan. She was also Leibniz Professor at Leipzig University.



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Marianne McKay​ Prof Marianne is a Senior Lecturer in Oenology at Stellenbosch University (SU), with a passion for teaching and learning (T&L), and the mysterious art and science of wine aroma. She has a BSc in chemistry and geography from the University of Cape Town (UCT), an MSc (Agric) from Stellenbosch University (SU), and a PhD in Oenology. In her early career, she worked as an analytical chemist at UCT, specializing in ICP and HPLC. She worked in the United Kingdom as an operations manager in clinical trials and validation services for pharmaceutical companies, returning to oenology and academia as a lecturer at Plumpton College, Brighton in 2000. She became interested in teaching and learning (T&L), and achieved a PGCE while in the UK. She came back to South Africa in 2007 and has been at SU since then.   Her research has taken her into some varied territory, from volatile phenol interactions and smoke taint in wine to engaged learning methodologies and sensory evaluation. Her T&L research now has a strong focus on engaged T&L and transformation in science. She has published in oenology and T&L, and is recognised for her contributions in both fields. She won the national South African Council for Higher Education Excellence in Teaching Award in 2015, and was recognised a Distinguished Teacher  by SU in 2017.  She held a Teaching Fellowship at SU from 2017 to 2020, and is currently a South African Teaching Advancement at Universities (TAU) programme Fellow.​​


Ms Yasuko Nagoshi. After working for a wine importer Ms. Nagoshi became a freelance wine journalist in 1998.  She then run the web magazine “Wine Press Japan", and later joined WANDS in 2015 and has been president and publisher since 2017.​


Supported by:

 The Institute of Enology and Viticulture, University of Yamanashi

 WANDS

 WOSA Japan


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  • Lidia du Plessis
    Coordinator: Staff Mobility Programmes & Partner Projects, Centre for Partnerships and Internationalisation
     lidia@sun.ac.za​
  • Prof Scarlett Cornelissen
    Professor: Department of Political Science
     sc3@sun.ac.za ​