Vintage Reports
2014 Vintage Report: Perfect (by the skin of our teeth)
Posted in Vintage Reports, Wine - Written by Nga Waka on May 22, 2014 - 0 CommentsGrowing season (Oct-Apr) data: Rainfall (mm) Growing Degree Days (heat units) The two key statistics from the 2013-14 season are that we matched our earliest harvest date (24 March) and that the 2nd and 3rd weeks of April produced more rain than recorded for the entire month of April over the last 30 years. The […]
2013 Vintage Report: A Goldilocks Season
Posted in Vintage Reports - Written by Nga Waka on June 26, 2013 - 0 CommentsGrowing season (Oct-Apr) data: Rainfall (mm) Growing Degree Days (heat units) I will remember 2013 as a “Goldilocks” season and vintage – yields slightly above long-term averages and weather not too hot, not too cold, not too wet, not too dry (while we had an extended dry period a look at the monthly rainfall figures will […]
2012 Vintage Report
Posted in Vintage Reports, Wine - Written by Nga Waka on August 7, 2012 - 0 CommentsGrowing season (Oct-Apr) data: Rainfall (mm) Growing Degree Days (heat units) I’ve been scratching my head for some time trying to make sense of this season and I’m still largely clutching at straws to explain how the seasonal data above can have produced the quality of grapes, not outstanding but certainly good, solid quality, that […]
2011 Vintage Report – the season of weird
Posted in Vintage Reports, Wine - Written by Nga Waka on June 10, 2011 - 0 CommentsRainfall (mm) Growing Degree Days (heat units) “When the going gets weird, the weird turn professional” – Hunter S. Thompson. The season of weird got underway with a Spring devoid of frosts, the first for many years. Having finally installed a wind machine in the Home Block last year the frost gods had the […]
2010 Vintage Report
Posted in Vintage Reports, Wine - Written by Nga Waka on May 1, 2010 - 0 CommentsThe theme song for Vintage 2010, with apologies to Dragon must be “April Sun in Martinborough”. Looking at the season as a whole however, it is the 2-month periods at both the start and end of the 2009-2010 growing season that tell the real story of Vintage 2010. The season got off to a very […]