August Update 2015
It’s well and truly the new financial year and I’m long overdue a blog post, so here we go. Joch has gone mad with new…
Vintage 2015: The Quick and the Dead
For those of you familiar with this 1995 movie, I would like to say I don’t in any way see myself as as the enigmatic female…
Half Time-ish 2014
Well, it’s just past half time. I had meant to post this before July ended, but now it’s August and it’s really nearly 3/4 time.
Post Vintage Blues
Well it’s finished. All the grapes are in, ferments are finished and everything has been pressed off, and wines have been ‘put to bed’ ie…
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and other stories
Well, shed building continues apace, with the newest part of the winery going up very quickly – once we had got over the planning application…
Can you dig it?
Vintage (or harvest) is just around the corner so of course what better time to start expanding the winery. I can’t blame Joch entirely for…
2013 Bushing Lunch at Penny’s Hill
It was a big day yesterday, as 650 or so winemakers, grape growers and assorted hangers on flocked in their finest (some in their finest…
Spring Vineyard Operations
It’s all go in the vineyard at the moment, after a pretty wet winter. Joch’s father Peter gets drafted in to do the all-important dodge…
August Rains
Blimey, we’ve had some rain this winter. I think the figures show we’ve had the wettest August on record here in South Australia, or maybe…
April Showers
Well, vintage – or harvest – is finally over for 2013. The guys picked the Petit Verdot up on the hill on a balmy April…
The Final Countdown – #v13
It gives me great pleasure to reference Swedish band Europe’s track ‘The Final Countdown’ in relation to the remaining few weeks of vintage (‘V13’) here…
The Halfway Mark
Well, Joch reckons he has ‘broken the back of vintage’ – or he will have done by the end of the week. Smaller than anticipated…