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    A YEAR OF HEAT, DROUGHT AND FIRE

    Jan 04, 2021 4 minutes
    CHARLES GENT

    LARGE swathes of Australia were held to ransom by heat, drought and bushfires throughout last summer, and wine producers were certainly not exempt.

    Grape yields were driven down by the paucity of rainfall in wine regions across the country, while flames savaged vines and wineries in Victoria, New South Wales and South Australia. The insidious and quixotic legacy of smoke taint would eventually account for the loss of some 40,000 ha of wine grapes.

    Looking back, it seems remarkable that the 2020 crush of 1.52 million tonnes was down by only 12 per cent on the previous year. As is frequently the case, the irrigated, broad-acre

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