The last week has been busy organising the harvest of the final vineyards for 2019. Trying to leave the grapes to ripen as long as possible in the beautiful autumn conditions, while organising picking just before the approaching wet weather and cooler conditions can be a little stressful. However, our last grapes arrived on Friday […]

Unfortunately, I could copy and paste the previous year’s seasonal conditions to describe the last 12 months. We have experienced another extremely hot dry 12 months. The Valley is now in a severe drought and all our dams are virtually empty,  conditions are the driest we can remember. The forecast is for continuing dry conditions […]

As we celebrate the arrival of the last bin of grapes at the winery today, it brings to an end a successful 2018 Vintage. Hot dry conditions prevailed throughout the growing season in all vineyards, resulting in slightly reduced yields, however excellent quality. So with Vintage almost over it is now time to get out […]

We are continuing to experience dry conditions and the entire valley and most of NSW is drought affected. We have been watering our vines during the dormant winter months to maintain soil moisture and are now looking for a few showers of rain to freshen the vineyard before budburst. The forecast is unfortunately for dry […]