More white than red wine after heatwave

The heatwave in south-east Australia might be over, but growers are only now getting a picture of the damage done.

One wine grape grower in Western Victoria says he's lost 90 per cent of this year's crop.

Don Spence, from Norton Wineries, says there just won't be a red vintage for him this year, but he's still finding the positives.

"I'd say roughly, probably, between 80 and 90 per cent of the vineyard will not be producing a productive crop this year," he says.

"But strangely enough, our white wines, our sauvignon blanc, which is a pretty popular wine in the area, has come through trumps."