WE have just had 11 marvellous millimetres of rain from the recent event – and it was most welcome.

While all our grapevines are just about dormant, they will still require wet roots to keep them happy until we get a bigger, more sustaining, rainfall.

And during the past month, in a reflection of the state of our industry, our final patch of unsold fruit was harvested to the ground.

Which m...