Vintage 2026
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Vintage 2025
Vintage 2025 growing season in Coonawarra was shaped by a classic El Niño weather pattern, bringing a warm, dry summer that led to an early harvest. These conditions, along with an exceptionally dry season, contributed to exceptional flavour concentration and vibrant colour in the red wines, while the Chardonnay, displayed bright fruit and delicate florals. […]
Vintage 2024
Vintage 2024 had some fluctuating weather through the growing season, with cool weather during flowering resulting in lower yields. The lead up to vintage was mild, and apart from a warm weekend in mid-March, vintage was cool and dry, allowing for gradual tannin development. Starting the trend of the season of most blocks being picked […]
Vintage 2023
Vintage 2023 was challenging but with appropriate vineyard management and picking decisions, we are very happy with the resulting wines. The season had frequent, small showers of rain and not many days at above average temperatures. Flowering went through quickly in a week of warm and dry weather. Summer temperatures were mild, before cool weather […]
2021 looking to be as outstanding as those of the 2001 & 2004 vintages.
The growing season for Vintage 2021 began with cooler temperatures and luckily no spring frost events. Warm and dry conditions at the beginning of November resulted in an early, fast and even flowering and no disease pressure. Summer was mild with some light rains and interspersed warmer days in January. This mild season resulted in […]
Vintage 2019, we are very happy with the quality.
Budburst was late but by Christmas, the phenology had caught up and after some warm weather around Christmas, we were looking at whites in late February. March brought some very cold nights with temperatures getting down below 3°C, which was very concerning from a frost point of view and this also delayed ripening. This extra […]
2018 is set to be labelled an amazing Vintage.
2018 vintage is set to be labeled an amazing vintage, with superb conditions and fruit of outstanding quality being harvested. The Winter and Spring rainfall leading into the 2018 season was excellent at 20% above long-term averages, soil moisture was replenished, and aquifers recharged. Winter was cold delivering a good dormancy. An unusual single black […]
2017 Vintage produces the goods
Big winter rains 890mm (instead of 566mm average) flushed the landscape and recharged the aquifers prior to budburst. This has been the wettest winter since 1989 according the S.E. drainage board, setting the vines up really well for summer. However, the spring budburst and phenological development was delayed with cold conditions carrying on into summer, […]
2016 Vintage comes to an end
Overall the vintage is very solid with great colour, good fruit intensity and ripeness. The fruit was clean and hung well compensating for the compression of vintage. Whites came with good natural acidities this year and show a lot of freshness and tang, with fine fruit flavours. The reds all have outstanding colour, facilitated by […]
2015 Vintage in Review
Vintage 2015 started with good rain falls in winter up until August, but subsequently we experienced dry conditions all through spring and early summer. A big dump of rain fell in January freshening up the vines after the long dry season, but this was the only significant rain of the growing season. Temperatures were generally […]
