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WHILE this year’s wine harvest wasn’t ideal for the bookkeepers, Great Southern growers say 2020 is shaping up as a great vintage. On the back of warm and dry conditions across WA, grape producers picked their fruit much earlier than usual. Plantagenet Wines General Manager Tom Wisdom said harvest dates were “massively accelerated” because of above-average temperatures. “We typically harvest in March and well into late April, but this year it started in February and finished in very early April,” he said. With Plantagenet Wines already bottling their 2020 vintage, Mr Wisdom said it would be one of the earliest...