19 September 2023
Explore McLaren Vale’s alternative varietal wines Exploring the Hidden Treasures: McLaren Vale’s Alternative Varietal Wines McLaren Vale is famous for its signature Shiraz, Cabernet…
16 August 2023
Our inspiration for bottling small volumes of Shiraz from single vineyards was the Scarce Earth program, which was a McLaren Vale initiative exploring and celebrating…
9 August 2023
I must have been a little bored one day and trawled the library on my iPhone and found these photos that made me think, my,…
26 February 2023
Ginscatos and Croquet on the lawn We had a great time at the inaugural SummerVines Festival which ran in McLaren Vale from the 19th to…
28 November 2022
THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER Apologies to Sam Coleridge for appropriating those words (above) from his poem The Rime of the…
2 November 2022
TROPHY HUNTING When my mother-in-law (Joch’s mother) said ‘winner winner, chicken dinner’ about something or other back in the early days of the Joch Bosworth/…
7 April 2022
Another packed instalment; tales of simple country folk going about their business of making wine in the best Australian wine regions of…
7 April 2022
What do those folk at Bosworth Wines really get up to? Read on and find out more about the goings on in…
2 April 2021
It’s been another action packed time here at Battle of Bosworth for vintage (#vintage2021), or harvest. We put together a dream team, as usual. We…
12 August 2020
A very quick Bosworth update: We finally had some decent rain in June, then apparently we have had the driest July on record. The vineyards…
15 November 2019
This year has been a busy one, as you can see from a few snippets from the year below. So, in no particular order; Vintage…
11 July 2019
It’s raining outside, the creeks are running and there’s a heap of gum trees down all over the vineyards after the storm that came through…