Vintage Reports
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 […]
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