<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/df1be77b-31d2-4146-82fe-0d42632967d5/C7007FE3-19EA-40BF-8AE8-4DE99D847540/" 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://nenews.com.au/Stories/chStory07.htm" href="http://nenews.com.au/Stories/chStory07.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">nenews.com.au</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://nenews.com.au/Stories/chStory07.htm"><table background="undefined" bgcolor="#ffffff"><tr><TD width="100%" id="pgraphA" class="fparagraph"><SPAN> <IMG border="2" align="top" src="http://nenews.com.au/Stories/images/chStory07.jpg" /> <B><FONT size="2"> POOR SEASON: King Valley Wines has been like a ghost town this season with huge reductions in production. </FONT></B> </SPAN> <FONT size="3" face="MS Sans Serif"> </FONT><P align="center"><DIV> <FONT size="3" face="MS Sans Serif"><B>Drought, frost have had “terrible impact” on region</B> </FONT></DIV> <FONT size="2" face="MS Sans Serif"> Written by <B>AMY WARNOCK</B>.</FONT> </P><P>KING Valley Wines will only process a quarter of its normal output of grapes this season due to the effects of the drought, fires and frosts.</p> <P>King Valley Wines chief executive officer and chief wine maker, Gary Wall, said production had been "<B>decimated</B>" because of the ongoing drought and frosts.</p> <P>"<B>We’d normally do between 4000 and 6000 tonnes for the entire season,</B>" he said.</p> <P>"<B>We’ve got one pasture of grapes left to harvest and we’ll be finished for the year, which is about six weeks early.</B></p> <P><B>"<B>We hope to get those grapes early next week.</B></B></p> <B><B> </B></B></TD></tr></table></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/C7007FE3-19EA-40BF-8AE8-4DE99D847540/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.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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