News

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 quietly going through malolactic ferment also slowly building flavour. We’ll […]

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 concentration was excellent and we look forward to some lovely […]

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 need now. All those in viticulture […]

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 the structure of fine Australian Sauvignon Blanc and this is what […]

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 before harvest. Botrytis mould was […]

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 vineyard has never looked better and the […]

An excellent year so far. The vintage was our earliest ever with picking starting on 24th February. Despite this ripening conditions were ideal with mild days, healthy vines and lovely flavours. We bottled our 2010 Sauvignon Blanc on the 19th July and it as lively, fresh and aromatic as ever with its trademark juicy lushness. […]

This month we have again received wonderful recognition of the quality of our wines. Both James Halliday in the Weekeend Australian and Tony Love in the Adelaide Advertiser included our wines in their Top 100 selections. The reviews are below. The 96 points for our 09 Sauvignon makes it the highest pointed Sauvignon Blanc in […]

A beautiful vintage now behind us. Later budburst meant ripening later in March. Only one hot spell over summer and that was before veraison so had minimal impact on the vineyard. Our dry grown vines sailed through the hot weather. Crop levels were a little below average. Picking started 17th March and finished on the […]

Some wonderful recent reviews. It is really pleasing to have the highest rating Sauvingnon blanc in the nation in Hallidays Wine 09 Wine Companion. James Halliday Australian Wine Companion 2009 Geoff Weaver Lenswood Ferus Sauvignon Blanc 2005 A wine that breaks all the rules; barrel-fermented in French oak, 12 months on lees, and has postively […]

What a hard vintage! Record heat wave from the 3rd March till the 17th which coincided with our harvest. It was tough for pickers and also for wineries with all fruit ripening together. We started harvest on the 6th of March (same date as last year and equal to our earliest ever start) and finished […]

It seems the warm early years are normal now. The 07/08 growing seaason is almost an exact relica (so far) of the previous year. I expect we will be picking early March again. 06/07 was our hottest year in the 25 since we started. The flavours were excellent and if we have similar flavours again […]