page_title: Yarra Valley (wine)
section_title: Black Saturday
hierarchical_section_title: Yarra Valley (wine) / History / Black Saturday
caption_attribution_description: English: Bushfires in the black spur area of the Yarra Ranges National Park, east of Healesville. Photo taken by myself, near Yarra Glen, looking east towards the Yarra Ranges, on the 10th of February 2009.
context_page_description: The Yarra Valley is an Australian wine region located east of Melbourne, Victoria. It is a cool climate region that is best known for producing Chardonnay, sparkling wine and Pinot noir. Its proximity to the urban centre and high profile wineries have made it an important destination for enotourism, receiving over 3.1 million visitors in 2011.
context_section_description: The Black Saturday bushfires were a series of fires that burnt large areas of rural Victoria on and around 7 February 2009, resulting in the death of 173 people. The wine region was threatened by three of the major fire complexes - Kinglake/Marysville, Dandenong Ranges & Maroondah/Yarra - and townships of Yarra Glen, Steels Creek and Dixons Creek were all heavily affected. Yering Station, Sticks, Punt Road, St Huberts and Domaine Chandon all reported losing some amount of fruit to spot fires. Mornington Peninsula winemaker Tom Carson's Serrat vineyard was destroyed. The Yarra Valley Wine Growers Association estimates that around 25 percent of viticultural area was threatened or impacted by fires, and around 457 acres (1.85 km²) have been damaged or destroyed, approximately 5 percent of the total planted area.  In most places fire caused little direct damage to vines, but huge amounts of fruit were lost due to smoke taint.
caption: Part of the Maroondah/Yarra complex, east of Yarra Glen, on 10 February 2009
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