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Speaker 1: Right. The wine industry is nursing a bit of an

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Speaker 1: oversupply hangover at the moment, around one hundred thousand tons

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Speaker 1: of grapes. This is a fifth of the crop we're

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Speaker 1: left on the vine last year, after exports just couldn't

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Speaker 1: keep up. Growers are hoping this season's a lot more balanced.

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Speaker 1: Ty Nelson is a vineyard manager at Soljian's winery, joins

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Speaker 1: us this morning, Tie, good morning.

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Speaker 2: Good morning.

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Speaker 1: So what was behind the huge boost and crops last year.

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Speaker 2: Well, we've had a couple of years of just really

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Speaker 2: good seasons. I mean we're still catching up from COVID

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Speaker 2: and we've just had bumper crops over the last couple

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Speaker 2: of years. That I mean with exports drying up, I

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Speaker 2: mean we just have me amble to sell it.

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Speaker 1: And is that because people aren't drinking as much? Or

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Speaker 1: have we got more competition? Why are the export what's

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Speaker 1: happening with the exports?

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Speaker 2: It's all those things, for sure. Yeah, people globally aren't

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Speaker 2: drinking as much. The demand has dropped off overseas for

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Speaker 2: for all of our wines, and I mean even locally,

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Speaker 2: people aren't drinking as much. So you know, it's hard

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Speaker 2: to keep up with production when we don't know what

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Speaker 2: what people are going to be drinking.

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Speaker 1: Ty, what can you do about that as a as

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Speaker 1: a wine maker, is you know, because people are going

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Speaker 1: to lower calorie options, they're going to lower alcohol options.

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Speaker 1: Can you do anything with wine to accommodate that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there's there's heaps of options you can. You can

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Speaker 2: approach it with you can. I mean yeah, it's it's

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Speaker 2: really hard to predict what the market's going to do

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Speaker 2: year to year, especially when when people are drinking less

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Speaker 2: and it's you know, with with lower alcohol options. The

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Speaker 2: equipment to be able to produce something like that, especially

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Speaker 2: for someone small like Solgions, is a really hard call

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Speaker 2: to make. I mean, the best that we can do

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Speaker 2: is keep making good wine and hope that people, you know,

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Speaker 2: just keep buying it and keep drinking it and keep

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Speaker 2: supporting us. But for for bigger companies, you know, those

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Speaker 2: lower alcohol options are different definitely on the on the books,

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Speaker 2: there's lots of investment into that.

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Speaker 1: What happens with leaving grapes on the vines? What I

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Speaker 1: mean what does that do to your business?

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Speaker 2: Well, it's it's money left sitting out, really, I mean yeah,

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Speaker 2: especially for the bigger vineyards in Marlborough. It's literally just

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Speaker 2: money sitting on the vines that that they can't do

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Speaker 2: anything with. And it's yeah, it's really disappointing, especially as

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Speaker 2: a grower to see, you know, all that hard work

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Speaker 2: you've worked for a year to get to get these

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Speaker 2: you know, to get these grapes, you know, really healthy

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Speaker 2: and really good quality, and then you're just going to

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Speaker 2: leave them sitting here because no.

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Speaker 1: Awesome, Right, I appreciate your time this morning, Thanks for

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Speaker 1: following us and Ty Nelson, vineyard manager at Soljian's Winery.

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