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Vintage Updates, and Other Wine Ramblings
The Approaching Vintage
It’s here again, and it’s with the excitement of a child on Christmas Eve, and the steadying breath of those who know their minds and...
The Biodynamic Bug
Biodynamic viticulture and winemaking. It could be a study into the minds of legitimately insane geniuses. Biodynamics is a beautiful...
The Diversity of a Grape
There's a reason I don't put grape varieties on the front label. They don't matter that much, and they largely lead to missing the point....
Leaving Fingerprints
The absolute benchmark for premium wine is the ability to show the vineyard and the grape variety. That's what you've got that no one...
On Wild Yeast
I suppose I’m part of a generation that loves to use wild yeast ferments, and provided it makes some kind of sense in the moment, I’ll...
Terroir In The Yarra
It's a wanky term these days, due to overuse and marketing. Which is a shame, because it's most of the wine. Terroir (pronounced tehwa)...
2015 Marsanne
It's the upcoming release, and has been for... well, a long time now. This is a wine that has been very demanding. It was the first...
A Brief Thank You
Now that production is up to a level where selling this wine could be a part-time job in itself, and that I actually have the quantity of...
Retrospective
I guess 2016's vintage is winding down. The winery still smells wonderfully of ferments. I'm not sure quite how to describe it; the...
2016 - The Year of Pinot Noir
There’s something magical about all of this. I don’t think we’ve seen a bad vintage in the Yarra Valley since ’11, and ’09 before it....
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