Limestone Coast: challenges and opportunities

“Who will buy my sweet red grapes?”, as the rose seller in the musical version of Oliver Twist  nearly said. This is becoming a serious concern not just for Australia’s Riverland growers but for some growers in the Limestone Coast (mapped here) in the far south east of South Australia too – for those in particular who do not have a contract with any of the local producers, with producers outside the region such as De Bortoli, or with big companies such as Fosters, Constellation or Casella (they of the [yellow tail] empire). However, it is not the...