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Speaker 1: Grape harvesters. I'm sure you're well aware by now's underway

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Speaker 1: because a lot of talk about it being the earliest ever.

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Speaker 1: So hawks by Marl Canterbury are picking and it's the

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Speaker 1: magic time of year of course, where you want a

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Speaker 1: nice warm day and those cool autumn nights just to

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Speaker 1: lock in all that flavor. Anyway, Philip Greggin's the one

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Speaker 1: growers Boston. He's with us Philip Morning, Good morning, Lindsay

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Speaker 1: Parkinson Rose family serving on Blanc who won that award

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Speaker 1: over the weekend in London. He was on the program yesterday.

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Speaker 1: He said for him anyway at River it's normal. How

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Speaker 1: much is normal? How much is early?

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Speaker 2: Well, it does depend upon the region that people are

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Speaker 2: in the summer. In many areas started off with a

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Speaker 2: real bang. We had all that warmth in late November

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Speaker 2: and early December, if you if youre to remember Mike,

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Speaker 2: it's pulled back a little bit since then. But if overall,

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Speaker 2: if we look round the country, it's early in most places,

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Speaker 2: and it's a continuation of a trend we've seen in

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Speaker 2: recent years.

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Speaker 1: And what's that mean long term? Does it change profoundly

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Speaker 1: the profile of a grape?

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Speaker 2: Potentially it can potentially it can. In fact, that's why

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Speaker 2: we've got a big research program program underway looking at

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Speaker 2: the genetics of serving on bloc and selecting some thousands

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Speaker 2: of new plants to ensure that we've got material that

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Speaker 2: will continue to produce the great flavors that we want

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Speaker 2: in the future. But in a world where harvest is

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Speaker 2: going to be earlier, it's going to be warmer with

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Speaker 2: the more variable.

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Speaker 1: What are we thinking twenty six quality v volume, big volume?

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Speaker 2: No, we don't think it's going to be a big volume.

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Speaker 2: There's tenure of wine in tanks at the moment from

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Speaker 2: previous vintages, so I don't think too many wineries are

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Speaker 2: short of wine, so we would expect an average or

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Speaker 2: smaller harvest at the stage quality well, a bit too

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Speaker 2: early to tell, but if the weather we've had in

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Speaker 2: February in most areas, and as you'll know, January was

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Speaker 2: up and down a bit across the country, but February

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Speaker 2: was pretty good over all, nice warm days. As you

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Speaker 2: described cool nights, we've certainly had those the last few nights,

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Speaker 2: as cool nights are really important for flavor development and

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Speaker 2: colored development. Things will be looking good.

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Speaker 1: Good STUFD likes to talk to you, Philip Philip Grigan,

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Speaker 1: who's the New Zealand One Groves boss. We'll see how

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Speaker 1: the whole thing unfolds. We've got grapes next door to

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Speaker 1: us in the country and I follow them the northern

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Speaker 1: part of the country. I'm not believe you know, it's

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Speaker 1: like too wet to many downpours would be my assessment,

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Speaker 1: but we'll see how it goes. For more from the

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