The past weeks have seen weather conditions range from a run of extremely hot days and nights, rain and currently mild to warm days with cool nights.
Ten days ago when we received 25mm of rain over two days I must say I was looking for the worry beads as I had only just commenced sampling […]

Well, following on from my last post, the nets won the race but not after incurring a small amount of collateral damage.
Organising a netting contractor proved more difficult than usual.  Not because they were all busy applying nets but because they had’nt realised that things were going to get frantic, the birds would suddenly move in […]

I am sorry it has been a while since I last posted.  While the usual excuse could be that things have been rather hectic, I must say that I have been trying to get my head around the current season, what it has been dishing up and what it means for the 2008 vintage.
In a […]

The constant talk these days is about drought, global warming, greenhouse emissions and the impact on the environment and us humans going forward.  I must admit hearing, reading and viewing aspects of these topics has increased the general awareness - I bloody well hope so!
My vineyard is located on the southern bank of the Margaret River, facing […]

Well we have an old fashion weatwave upon us at present and apart from us humans walking around with our tongues hanging out the vines are still expected to continue their job of ripening the fruit.  We are at day three with temperatures hovering around 38 - 40C consistently and another day or two to […]