Submitted by marketing on Wed, 23/11/2011 - 14:33
The Season
The growing season was influenced by La Nina weather conditions, resulting in a very mild spring, a warm summer with high sunshine hours and a long, lingering autumn. In spite of being dry we had infrequent, but well spaced showers keeping the vines very happy. These conditions enabled us to harvest beautifully ripened, healthy fruit .
The Vineyard and vines
Submitted by marketing on Thu, 02/12/2010 - 15:24
The spring of 2009 was one of the warmest ever recorded so the vines got off to a good start with an early bud burst. Late spring and early summer however, were unseasonably cool and cloudy, sufficiently slowing the development of the grapes to cause us concern. The skies then cleared and we had three to four months of unbroken sunshine. This enabled us to leave the fruit on the vine to attain excellent maturity and ripeness, while the earlier cooler weather helped retain excellent natural acidity.
Submitted by admin on Fri, 16/10/2009 - 08:34
With an early budburst and a warm summer this growing season was ideal for pinot gris. A long, dry autumn meant we were able to delay picking the grapes until they were perfectly ripe. They came from an elevated vineyard on clay, limestone slopes, looking northwest over the Waipara Valley.
