And when that's the case, conflicts can easily arise between grower and winemaker. Australia, for instance, asked growers to pull vines in 1986 and 1987 in response to a wine glut that left the marketplace awash in unsold and mediocre bulk wine. Some growers complied, some didn't.
One who declined was Peter Lehmann, who protected his growers in the Barossa Valley and found a way to use all the grapes they could produce. Not long after, Barossa became known as a premier wine-growing...
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