"It's not the water, it's the heat [that's having an impact on the grapes]."
"Not only five days in a row but week after week of 40-plus-degree days."
"That's about 6,000 bottles that we can produce from this vineyard, so it's a substantial loss,"Mr de Tastes said.
"Most of the vines are over 100 years old. Up until last year they weren't irrigated,"Ms Tyler said.
"We would have lost the vines, there is no way our vines would have survived."
"It's certainly affected our growers who supply fruit from the more northern sub-regions of the Great Southern,"he said.
"The buck always stops with the grower. Unfortunately, they just won't get their returns,"he said.
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