Vineyards in winter are like ant beds after you have just run over them (but not deliberately)! The work usually starts in July after a few frosts while the resting vines are in a deep sleep after shedding their fruit. The mornings in July and August is an optimum time to prune without creating…

We couldn’t have asked for a better lead-up to Vintage 2025. Six months of beautiful, steady rain soaked into the soil, setting up our vines for what should’ve been a stellar start to the season.

It’s hard to believe that six years ago today, we took a gamble and planted Mudgee’s first (and only!) Albariño vines. At the time, we were in the thick of a drought, with bushfires, wet weather and hail storms to follow. But these little vines? Absolute troopers!