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We are delighted our 2013 chardonnay was included in James Halliday’s Top 100 wines for 2022 released on November 19. The review is below. It is a high honour to be included. Only 70 of Australia’s 2500-plus wineries are chosen and it really represents the best of the best. For a chardonnay of nine years […]

We are well on the way to recovery after the devastation of December 20th. We have cleared all the debris and have two new sheds built and ready to use as soon as the concrete dries. The land is greening up. Most of our eucalypts and deciduous trees are sprouting new green growth and it […]

A devastating bushfire that tore through the Adelaide Hills on December 20 badly damaged our property. We lost our two sheds, all equipment, 80 of my paintings, a cabin and my car. About 40 per cent of the vines were also affected, mostly by radiant heat. Time will tell if they reshoot and survive to […]

Great review by James Halliday in his annual Top 100. Our Sauvignon continues to stand out with its depth and complexity. Always good to see our more understated style recognised in this way. So far so good this season. After bud burst early October we are on track for harvest late March which is ideal. […]

An excellent vintage blessed by perfectly ripe grapes and lovely flavours. Always thankful when all is safely in the winery.

Back to normal in 2017 with vintage in early April. Lovely flavours, ripe grapes and good weather at harvest. We are fortunate to have ripeness and flavour at relatively low sugar levels so we don’t have the burden of high alcohols for our wines to carry. This year was excellent in that regard. Continued fine […]

Another early but excellent vintage. Weather after veraison (berry colouring and softening) was mild which is vital for flavour development. Each year it seems to be getting earlier; climate change certainly appears to be with us with our picking dates 3 weeks earlier on average than in the 1990s. Crops were about average and fully […]

High praise from Halliday We’ve just received great new reviews from James Halliday for our 2014 sauvignon blanc and 2013 Ferus. The 96 points James gave the 14 sauv blanc puts it among Australia’s top three sauvignons in the 2016 Halliday Wine Companion. Here’s what James had to say: 2014 Geoff Weaver Lenswood Sauvignon Blanc Dry-grown […]

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 upset flowering in Chardonnay and Pinot. This […]

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 normal. Our “normal” is now early March. No doubt there is a […]

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 normal. Our “normal” is now early March. No doubt there is a […]

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 vineyard is a picture. Yesterday we bottled our 2012 […]