POKOLBIN, AUSTRALIA (Reuters) - As Australia's most populous state emerges from a lengthy COVID-19 lockdown, winemakers in its top grape-growing district, the Hunter Valley, have started toasting an influx of guests from travel-starved Sydney.
Although the country largely avoided the high pandemic death rates of many other countries, the state of New South Wales, home to a third of Australia's population, entered one of the world's longest lockdowns in June as the Delta strain tore through the community.
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