Challenges ahead for Southern Hemisphere wine producers

While Australia's woes have attracted most media attention, all the wine-producing countries of the Southern Hemisphere face challenges in the year ahead, according to a recently published report from just-drinks. Ben Cooper reports. For the wine-producing countries of the Southern Hemisphere, the coming year looks set to present some significant though differing challenges, asserts a new report from just-drinks.According to the just-drinks report, Southern Hemisphere grape supply and wine production - forecasts to 2013, 2008 finds wine production in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Argentina and Chile in a marked state of flux. Epitomising the "feast or famine" nature which sometimes besets agricultural commodities, 2008 sees Australia move from its much-publicised grape glut to a state of balance.


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