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2019 Vintage Report: frost depleted yields offset by high quality vintage
Posted in Uncategorized, Vintage Reports - Written by Nga Waka on January 31, 2020 - 0 CommentsGrowing season (Oct-Apr) data: Rainfall (mm) Growing Degree Days (heat units) A rather typical season in many respects with one glaring exception. A major advective (cold air mass) frost in October took out most of our largest vineyard, Pirinoa Block. The cold air mass settled to the South of Martinborough and around Te Muna while […]
2015 Vintage Report: small but perfectly formed
Posted in Uncategorized, Vintage Reports, Wine - Written by Nga Waka on August 25, 2015 - 0 CommentsGrowing season (Oct-Apr) data: Rainfall (mm) Growing Degree Days (heat units) There’s always a danger with catch phrases like “small but perfectly formed” that somewhere in the past I’ve used it to describe a similar vintage. If I have, mea culpa! The “small” part of the equation was established during the first half of the […]