Drought, bushfires and extreme weather leave grape growers and producers battling to make ends meet after significant losses to the 2020 harvest.
Tyrrell's Wines in the Hunter Valley recorded one of its worst harvests in decades, losing 80 per cent of its wine grapes to smoke-taint.
The 2020 vintage is expected to be high quality, despite extreme heat, frost and bushfires cutting yields.Like the Tyrrell family, many growers in South Australia's Barossa Valley saw their vintage slashed in half. Mr Pearce said the small vintage was a big hit to the industry, leaving growers with half their expected income and wineries with less wine to sell.
Chair of Riverland Winegrape Growers Association Brett Proud said, while growers hit by hail saw significant grape and financial losses, extreme temperatures and"High water prices are putting the wine industry at risk," Mr Proud said.
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