by Geoff Weaver | Mar 17, 2014 | News, News Archives
We have been making wine here for 30 years and I haven’t seen an average year yet. Another roller-coaster season with the warmest October ever to start the growing season (average temp 18 deg C vs average of 13.1 deg C) followed by an unseasonally cool November which...
by Geoff Weaver | May 30, 2013 | News, News Archives
Really good vintage. Average crops of fully ripe grapes with lovely fine flavours. Bottling Sauvignon Blanc and Riesling next week. Chardonnay and Pinot quietly resting in oak as well as our first Ferus wild yeast Sauvignon since 2009. Harvest was again earlier than...
by Geoff Weaver | May 30, 2013 | News, News Archives
Really good vintage. Average crops of fully ripe grapes with lovely fine flavours. Bottling Sauvignon Blanc and Riesling next week. Chardonnay and Pinot quietly resting in oak as well as our first Ferus wild yeast Sauvignon since 2009. Harvest was again earlier than...
by Geoff Weaver | Feb 8, 2013 | News, News Archives
Lots happening. Our grapes are almost all through veraison (the start of ripening when the reds colour and the white grapes soften) and so we are about 40 days from harvest subject to the weather. Crop levels are about average at 2.5kg/vine (7 tonnes/ha) and the...
by Geoff Weaver | May 2, 2012 | News, News Archives
Our 2012 Sauvignon and Riesling wines now being prepared for bottling and looking fresh and taught with beautiful flavours. I am really happy with them both. Bottling mid May and then we wait for them to settle down and show their potential. Chardonnay and Pinot...
by Geoff Weaver | Mar 20, 2012 | News, News Archives
An early but succesful vintage. A mild summer with few extreme temperatures really helped the vines. Crops were tiny in Pinot, Chardonnay and Riesling (less than 1kg per vine) and still less than 2 kg per vine in Sauv blanc. The sugars, flavous, acids and...
by Geoff Weaver | Jan 29, 2012 | News, News Archives
So far so good for the 2012 growing season. Slightly warmer than average with modest crop levels promises an eary harvest in March. We must pray we avoid the devestating rains of Feb and March last year which made things so difficult. Mild sunny calm days are what we...
by Geoff Weaver | Jul 28, 2011 | News, News Archives
Wonderful reviews and recognition from James Halliday today in his newly released 2012 Wine Comanion. His list of Australias finest Sauvignon Blanc wines lists us as number 1 with our Ferus and again at number 6 with our 2010 Sauvignon. The comments note particularly...
by Geoff Weaver | Jul 4, 2011 | News, News Archives
In the face of nature we are powerless. The 2011 vintage was our most challenging in our 28 vintage history at Lenswood. A cool, wet spring and summer made things difficult but the vines sailed through with no problems. Then in March we had 150mm of rain only a week...
by Geoff Weaver | Nov 26, 2010 | News, News Archives
November 2010 At last a “normal” season. Budburst in October, flowering in early December and (hopefully) picking next year in late March or early April. As a grower we all run the gauntlett of the weather and late March is a much safer time to be ripening. The...
