Orange wineries predict strong 2021 vintage

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March 30 2021 - 5:00pm
GOOD BUNCH: Charlie Svenson (second from left) with grape harvesters Henry Hesbois, Antoine Bouchez and David Halgren. Photo: CARLA FREEDMAN.
GOOD BUNCH: Charlie Svenson (second from left) with grape harvesters Henry Hesbois, Antoine Bouchez and David Halgren. Photo: CARLA FREEDMAN.

Wineries are confident of producing high quality drops for their 2021 vintage, despite a lower than normal yield and the recent rains, which allowed the fungal grape disease known as botrytis bunch rot to ruin some bunches.

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Peter Holmes

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I started as a copyboy on The Sun on Broadway in 1987. Since then I've worked as a full-time reporter or editor at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Sun-Herald, The Sunday Telegraph and BuzzFeed News. I came to the Central Western Daily in 2020.

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