Vintage Reports

The growing season for 2012 was very much in two parts. The beginning of the season in September 2011 was cool, dreary and generally dismal. Bud burst for the vines was late by around two weeks, and the flowering period that followed in early "summer" was equally dull and cold.

The season for our 2011 harvest started off well with a slightly early budburst, and a very benign growing season. Sunshine was abundant, frost was thankfully absent, and well spaced rain events kept the vines growing evenly throughout the season.