When winemaker Ed Carr first visited Tasmania in the late 1980s winegrowing on the island was in its infancy.
‘There was only something like 46 hectares [114 acres] of vines in the ground across the whole state’, remembers Carr. ‘It was hard to even find vineyards back then. Now it’s close to 3,000 hectares [7,400 acres]. It’s really boomed – particularly in the last five years or so.’
Has it ever. And it looks set...
