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Sans The consensus amongst those who have conducted a comprehensive survey is that, overall, the quality is excellent but not as high as 2007 and, like the shock heatwave that hit South East Australia in �8, it is the seasoned and highly skilled vignerons who have risen to the top, (in particular, those who postponed harvest and benefited from the late September rains. This increased acidity and slightly diluted grape sugars). At the bottom of the pool are a minority who, for various reasons, including difficulty fermenting to dryness due to the elevated sugars, produced wines lacking the fruit/acid/tannin balance that winelovers expect from even the lowest appellation cuvees.