MACHINE pruning is ongoing – with still a fair way to go.

And, at the same time, trying to do a tidy job to lessen the inevitable and expensive hand clean up job, is important.

The annual wine grape crush figures for last year are also out (you can see a feature in this issue on pages 6 and 7), and most of the journos picked up on the fact that Chardonnay is now more popular than Shiraz – ...