Wet weather hits wine growers hard

Wine growers in the region have copped a beating from January’s rain, with Normanby Wines only salvaging seven and a half tonnes of its usual 40-tonne yield. Neighbouring vineyard Paradine Estate has been forced to make its own wine with the tonne of Cabernet Sauvignon grapes it saved when last weekend’s weather wiped out its entire crop. For many local wine growers, small harvests have meant they could not get any grapes to Stanthorpe for pressing because they did not meet the tonnage requirements, reports the Queensland Times.