We received our last consignment of grapes into the winery in the third week of March and with all the wines now safely in barrel or tank, we can catch our breath and contemplate the remainder of the year.

Vintage News

The Hunter Valley experienced a lovely Spring with rain virtually falling when it was needed, warm, but not hot, days. Ideal conditions for growing perfect grapes.

This weather pattern continued up until early January.

We were then subjected to 3 weeks of extremely hot weather. There was no relief in the form of thunderstorms with our total January rainfall reaching only 2.4mm.

We harvested the white varieties, in excellent condition, late January into early February and then managed to get some fantastic Shiraz harvested prior to quite extensive rain falling. Overall, we rate the Hunter vintage as being very, very good to excellent.

We purchased fruit from Young (Hilltops region) again this year. After an extremely dry year in that region we received grapes that were much smaller in size but having intense colour and flavour.

We rate this vintage from Hilltops as also being very, very good to excellent.

We had some lovely follow up rain post harvest and the Hunter again looks as good as you will ever see it.