VINTAGE Traders Australia will pursue legal action against a wine company which has yet to pay its $900,000-plus bill.

VTA chairman Phillip Englefield said the company was not the only one yet to pay up.

"So far we've recovered a bit more than 70 per cent of all monies owed to Vintage Traders (from wine grape sales)," Mr Englefield said.

"We would like to have some arrangements with these people, but at this stage we're exercising our legal rights."

VTA was set up to market surplus and uncontracted wine grapes in 2006, after up to 200,000 tonnes of grapes were left to rot nationwide that year.

Mr Englefield said that while it was difficult for the organisation to market uncontracted and excess fruit, it would be "substantially more difficult for individual growers".

VTA looks set to come to arrangements with some companies with unpaid bills - Mr Englefield expects to have 85 per cent of money owed to VTA paid soon.

"It's disappointing for growers (when bills are paid late). It impacts heavily on their cash flows in a difficult industry to be in, both climate-wise and with viability," Mr Englefield said.

"This is making life even harder."

 

*This news is a quote from the「WeeklyTimesNow」.