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Speaker 1: Than with me right now is Rowena Duncan of the country. Hey,

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Speaker 1: ro row are you there? Oh you mean yes, I can. Oh,

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Speaker 1: thank god the phone's work. Sorry about that. That was

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Speaker 1: a clearly operated era at my end. No, no, probably not,

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Speaker 1: probably somebody else anyway, Hey, listen, tell me what's going

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Speaker 1: on with the viticulture and the horticulture season. It sounds

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Speaker 1: like the good weather's been a great thing.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So flowering is actually two weeks ahead for Sauvignon

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Speaker 2: Blanc and Marlborough because it's been really warm, so that

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Speaker 2: means they'll harvest about two weeks early as well. And

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Speaker 2: Hooks Bank Sorry, they're also running a full two weeks

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Speaker 2: ahead of normal. Cherries, abracons, apples are all ripening really well,

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Speaker 2: and we know how badly that area was hit with

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Speaker 2: Gabrielle a couple of years ago, so you know, anything

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Speaker 2: that's looking positive for them is going to be really

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Speaker 2: warming people's hearts, shall we say.

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Speaker 1: And Marlborough as well.

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Speaker 2: Where the best cherries are grown at Cherry Bank Orchard

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Speaker 2: there they are reporting that things are ripening really well

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Speaker 2: ahead of schedule as well. But it's been a bit

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Speaker 2: of a different story for the South earlier this month

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Speaker 2: there was a really bad and invection frost I believe

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Speaker 2: it was, And that's kind of when you get a

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Speaker 2: bit of a blast shell, so it's cold on top

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Speaker 2: of cold, and often you know, when there is a frost,

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Speaker 2: we see the helicopters get up in the air, we

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Speaker 2: see the windmills and the fans come on. But if

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Speaker 2: there's no warm air to circulate and mix around, it

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Speaker 2: makes things really really challenging. So that's when they kind

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Speaker 2: of turn on the sprinklers and try and get a

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Speaker 2: bit of a layer on the grapes. Unfortunately, some didn't

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Speaker 2: have sprinklers down there in that bannock Burn upper low

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Speaker 2: Burn area, they got a bit of frost damage. So

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Speaker 2: that's part of the vintage loss. So leaves damaged. They

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Speaker 2: get them mini bunches before they start to flower and

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Speaker 2: become grapes. They can get burnt and they can drop

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Speaker 2: off as well. Cherries can handle a lower temperature, but

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Speaker 2: the grapes, it really can impact on them. So yeah,

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Speaker 2: a bit of a challenge for them down there.

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Speaker 1: Brilliant thank you for ridding us through it. Roll I

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Speaker 1: really appreciate It's Roe Duncan of the Country

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