“It’s like licking an ashtray,” said Iain Riggs, a vintner here. “It’s really rank and bitter.”
“The smoke produced by the wildfires that ravaged the country may ruin entire vintages, but detecting contamination is a guessing game.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/06/world/australia/wines-fires.html
Merging
I thought this was going to be one of the Country Squire’s tasting notes on a Loire red
Yup Farming can be a miserable business.
Not fun to deal with at all. Its my biggest concern especially in low rain years like this one.