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...
