Archive for the ‘Vintage 2013 Diary’ Category
Part 3 – Where did that fortnight go?
Posted in Vintage 2013 Diary - Written by Nga Waka on April 12, 2013 - 0 CommentsWell, my best intentions to keep this diary regular flew out the window once we started picking. In my defence, everything decided it was going to ripen at the same moment and a general clamour of pick me, no pick me, ensued. As I get my head briefly above the parapet I can report that […]
Part 2 – 22/3/13 – not so fast sunshine!
Posted in Vintage 2013 Diary - Written by Nga Waka on March 22, 2013 - 0 CommentsI might have been a bit optimistic about harvest starting next week. Today’s testing results as follows: It looks as though the big rain this week, 92mm all told, has pushed us back a bit more than I expected so we will probably be underway around our normal start date of the beginning of April, […]
Part 1 – 20/3/13 – a week out from picking?
Posted in Vintage 2013 Diary - Written by Nga Waka on March 19, 2013 - 0 CommentsFirst round of grape testing last week had sugars in the following range: Based on those numbers we were looking at starting to pick around the 25th of March but the 80mm of drought-breaking rain this week will push that back a few days. Everything is looking in pristine condition and the rain which was […]
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