Vineyard owners in South Australia's Riverland are hitting the market as the wine industry feels the crush of a difficult vintage and China's tariffs on red wine.
abc.net.au/news/riverland-vineyards-up-for-sale-china-tariffs-red-wine/102240328Ashley and Tash Chabrel are closing the door on a chapter of their life by selling half of their vineyards and the family home in Barmera, one of several families across SA's Riverland region choosing to diversify or exit.
"I think it goes against the mentality of growers to sell things but I think in business we had to look at all the options," Mr Chabrel said. Mr Chabrel, former chair of the winegrape CCW Co-operative, started planting grapes for dried fruit in 2015 and was now a director of Dried Fruits Australia.
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