<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/1bf3963c-9251-4cbd-9e73-dcc076131159/47A11AEF-5F51-4FFB-ACED-D5D6EA351492/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.nenews.com.au/Stories/chStory11n.htm" href="http://www.nenews.com.au/Stories/chStory11n.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">www.nenews.com.au</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nenews.com.au/Stories/chStory11n.htm"><P>AFTER a disastrous 2007 vintage, David Thwaites at De Bortoli’s Wines near Moyhu is confident of a much better 2008.</p> <P>"<B>Last year, we had a zero allocation of water from the King River, we had the drought to contend with, and the few grapes we were able to pick were badly smoke tainted,</B>" David said.</p> <P>"<B>This season has been fantastic so far.</B></p> <P><B>"<B>We had good spring rain just when we needed it, and river flows are such that we have a 100 per cent allocation from the King.</B></B></p> <P><B><B>"<B>Cropping levels are looking very promising.</B></B></B></p> <P><B><B><B>"<B>We have started picking the whites and volume and quality are above average, and while we haven’t yet begun on the reds, early indications are that they will be just as good.</B></B></B></B></p> <P><B><B><B><B>"<B>After the anxieties of last year, it is very pleasant to be able to get back to normal.</B>"</B></B></B></B></P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/47A11AEF-5F51-4FFB-ACED-D5D6EA351492/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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