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    TOUGH TIMES

    Jan 05, 2020 3 minutes
    by Mike Zekulich.

    FROM stellar to horror - that is how one WA winemaker summed up the difference between the 2018 and the 2019 vintages, the result of severe weather conditions.

    “Involved in 2019 were widespread thunderstorms, hail, frost and very heavy rains, much greater than normal,” said Kim Tyrer, winemaker at Mt Barker’s Galafrey Wines who is also vice president of the local wine producer’s association. Others may well have deemed it viticultural heaven to hell. One Pemberton grower said he did not pick a single bunch in the vintage.

    “It was

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