Cool summer brings late vintage for Shoalhaven

The Shoalhaven wine vintage is usually a busy, but sequential process of harvesting, crushing and fermenting grapes as they become ripe. But a general lack of warmth and sunlight during the ripening period has meant many of the region’s grapes were ready to be harvested at the same time.
“All the reds came in on top of each other, so it was a logistical nightmare for a few weeks while we fermented reds and worked out the tank spaces,” Two Figs winemaker Simon Hall says.