Vineyard Update for September

Vineyard Update from Vineyard Manager – Rich Williams September brought about a bit more wind and cooler temps which is normal for Spring here in Central Otago. It was rather …

Vineyard Soil Update – August 2010

Keeping in Balance Rich Williams, Vineyard Manager and Robin Dicey, our Viticultural ‘Godfather’, have just undertaken some very detailed analysis of our soils across our eight different vineyard blocks and …

Vineyard Report – July 2010

Vineyard Manager Rich Williams managed to file this vineyard report before he headed down the the bottling plant to join Cassy, Sue and Olly on ‘Quality Control’ duties for the …

Pre-Harvest Grape Development

Just over a month ago Rich Williams, our vineyard manager, sent in a photo of the development of various clones around the vineyard. (see 10th March blog). The response was …

Almost Ready for Harvest

An update from Vineyard Manager Rich Williams Ripening has progressed solidly in the last month and we are just a couple of days from harvest. Now that the vineyard has …