Smoke taint hits Adelaide Hills wineries

Smoke taint hits Adelaide Hills wineries

Some Adelaide Hills grapegrowers have been forced to abandon their entire vintage after their grapes tested positive to smoke taint from the Sampson Flat bushfire. One of the growers and winemakers, Frank Baldasso, was trapped on his property during the January blaze, and counted himself lucky to have survived as the fire roared through one of his vineyards. He had lost about a quarter of his vines, but he was safe, and optimistic that the smoke – thick enough to block out the sun, but quickly swept away by the wind – could not have ruined the rest of his precious vintage.

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