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A man holding two bunches of grapes in a vineyard in front of a tractor.

"A number of years I might have picked at the end of January, but never the 20th of January,"
Mr Papageorgiou said.

Wine grape grower Jack Papageorgiou standing in a vineyard.

Crops in a vineyard.

"Also the pricing of some red varieties is particularly poor, so it's going to challenge growers financially going forward."

A vineyard on a hill with trees.

"Every stage has been early this year, it's been an extremely dry growing season, coming off a very dry winter."

A woman leaning on a fence post in front of a vineyard

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