Jim White - Domaine Chandon

Jim is the Vineyard Manager at Domaine Chandon and looks after 100 acres of vineyard and 180 acres of floodplains. With both Yarra River and Yeringberg Creek frontage. His family has been in the grape growing business for 130 years and Jim "always looks at the state of the environment and striking a balance between agricultural production and maintaining the altered, but natural environment as much as possible". He relies on the river and is very conscious of protecting his own patch for those up and downstream. He'd like to see a return to the natural flooding regime of the past and to see more native animals about.

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