by heapsgoodwine | Jun 26, 2016 | Uncategorized |
The weather has been quite changeable the last few weeks (global warming), from 14 degree days right up to 34 degrees. From rain all day to hot and dry. Last week was hot, really hot, well into the low to mid thirties, and humid, a risk for Oidium. The days were...
by heapsgoodwine | Jun 7, 2016 | Uncategorized |
Marija and I were in Vienna over the weekend to attend the VieVinum wine festival. It is held in the majestic setting of the Hofburg Palace. Nearly six hundred winemakers attended, mostly from Austria, quite some from Italy, and five of us from Slovenia (represent!)....
by heapsgoodwine | May 27, 2016 | Uncategorized |
Who said making wine in Slovenia would be boring? Never ceases to surprise. I had been thinking of what I should write for this blog post, and then it came to me, in the post…. What’s that? I hear a lot of you ask. Well that is essentially a piece of paper that says...
by heapsgoodwine | May 17, 2016 | Uncategorized |
Healthy signs of recovery in the small parts of the vineyard that suffered from frost damage. The resilience of the grapevine is a thing of beauty. These secondary shoots will not be as fruitful and are already well behind the rest of the vineyard, this will...
by heapsgoodwine | May 7, 2016 | Uncategorized |
This week we managed to find time to get a couple of the 2015 wines into bottle. This is much earlier than we would normally be bottling, but the warm vintage conditions last year has given wines that tend to be developing at a rate much faster than normal. So with an...
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