Up to 90% of the 2020 vintage will not make it to bottle due to smoke tainted grapes caused by the catastrophic bushfire season.
The Government has announced a $75,000 emergency grant for agriculture damaged by the bushfires, but smoke-taint will probably be excluded from the damage criteria,” said Mr Fitzgibbon.
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