Is the climate in Liberia able to cultivate a grape winery?!


Question: Can grapes even grow in Liberia/West Africa?


Answers: Can grapes even grow in Liberia/West Africa?

Grapes can certainly grow. Question is, will good wine grapes grow and make good wine.

Wine is made commercially in a number of African countries, especially in the north (Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco) and the south (South Africa & Zimbabwe), and less commercially in some others such as Kenya

There are two primary issues and a many secondary ones.

First is finding an area with the right soil with enough drainage and water.

Second is pests -- will the vines survive local pests. For instance, much of the southern United States is a no-go area for vinifera because of Pierces disease.

So, first find an area for a vineyard, probably in the highlands where it is cooler.

But what is the market? Is it economic? Do locals drink wine? Could they afford it if they wanted to? Is there the infrastructure? Electricity for cooling tanks during the vintage? Could you make wine locally cheaper than imported wines from South Africa etc?

If you wantto plant vines in a back garden, go ahead. But if you want a commercial winery you have to ask why no-one else has done it.





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