NORTH East viticulturist Mark Walpole likes to think ahead – sometimes decades.
As a champion of 'new' grape varieties that match long–term changes in climatic conditions at his Whorouly and, more recently, Beechworth vineyards, Mr Walpole says he can see no reason why production of grapes in the Murray Valley 'food bowl' couldn't be moved upstream in future to North East Victoria.
"We might...
