A look back at Vintage 2019

by | May 24, 2020 | Uncategorized | 0 comments

Because I am slack as with writing this blog, there are no posts from last years harvest. Now that the 2019 wines are mostly finished malolactic fermentation, I thought it would be a good time to take a look back and assess the vintage. It was the 10th harvest for...

Spring has sprung

by | Apr 26, 2020 | Uncategorized | 0 comments

Long time since I was on here, as usual I seem to neglect this blog, and as usual I promise to try harder. Anyway, the weather has been really nice so far this year, and the vineyard is off to a great start. It would of been nice to have had a proper winter, but it is...

Just remembered that I have a blog….

by | Sep 1, 2018 | Uncategorized | 0 comments

Sooooo, you could say that I have been neglecting this blog a little bit, I guess we should try and catch up a bit since the last post in spring. 2017. Well, the season 2017 was tracking superbly, that is until July 7 when a huge hailstorm hit Ritoznoj, huge in terms...

New beginnings

by | Apr 2, 2017 | Uncategorized | 0 comments

Spring has well and truely sprung, it has been a very warm March, and the season is upon us around three weeks earlier than last year.   This has created a hectic few weeks, with a push to finish up the pruning in a shorter time frame than usual. Just to add to...

2016, how’s it looking??

by | Feb 20, 2017 | Uncategorized | 0 comments

A normal year? Well not quite but after a series of extreme vintages, 2016 almost feels like a normal year. Somehow we managed to avoid all the crazy around us. We got such a small amount of damage from frost and hail that it seems selfish to even mention it when some...

On and on…

by | Jun 26, 2016 | Uncategorized | 0 comments

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...