Wine tanks are full and many grape growers are scarred from a vintage where fruit was left to rot on the vine, but winemaker Brian Mullany is simply relieved to have covered the costs of a particularly difficult year.
“A lot of shiraz and cabernet sauvignon was left on the vine, about half the vineyard was just left to rot.” he says. “We would typically make 200 to 300 tonnes of shiraz and cabernet, which we didn’t do this year. All our tanks are full of wine.”
Mullany has been growing grapes near Young on the south-western slopes of New South Wales for the better part of three decades. He and his wife, Suellen, also produce their own label. It’s not his first time dealing with a wine glut and he doesn’t think it will be his last.
