Vintage Report 2013

The Hunter Valley is the earliest region in Australia to commence harvesting grapes each year. You may recall that the Hunter Valley had an extremely wet year in 2011/2012. This culminated in hardly a red grape being picked in the Hunter for the 2012 vintage with the majority of the crop being lost... 

Challenging Times

The Australian wine industry is experiencing many challenges as we head into 2013 and beyond. The strong Australian dollar has meant that exports have declined in all major export markets in terms of both volume and value. The strength of the dollar has seen a flood of imports including a large increase... 

Fantastic Hunter Semillons from the 2013 Vintage

The grape harvest for Mistletoe Vintage 2013 commenced on January 21st. The prediction leading up to harvest was for one of the best red and white vintages ever seen in the Hunter Valley. Everyone was cautiously optimistic that the weather would hold and we would have a very high quality vintage. At... 

Christmas 2012 Newsletter

Seasons Greetings! All of us at Mistletoe would, like to say thank you to you, our loyal customers and friends. Yes, we have made a lot of our customers friends over the years and it is fantastic to see you coming back year after year. Your continued support tells us that we must be doing something... 

New Releases Christmas 2012

We have 4 new releases for you in this newsletter. First, there are our 3 Semillons from the 2012 vintage. We made a conscious decision to harvest the grapes for these wines slightly earlier than normal as we could see the period ahead being very wet. This earlier harvest has resulted in very aromatic... 

Mistletoe Acquisitive Sculpture Prize Winners 2012

The winner of the 2012 prize was Kerry Cannon from Warialda NSW with his winning entry titled “The Gooney Bird” (see image below). The weather was perfect with over 100 people in attendance for the announcement. Kerry was present on the night and was quite shocked, and ecstatic, that he had... 

Spring Newsletter 2012

Greetings from Mistletoe where we are experiencing a beautiful run of late Winter Hunter Valley weather. Still a few cold mornings, but, in the main, nice sunny days with clear skies. We have done a huge amount of work in the vineyards this Winter with the sole objective of improving the quality of the... 

New Releases Spring 2012

We have three New Releases for you in this Spring Newsletter. They are the: 2011 Reserve Chardonnay, 2011 Petillant Rose and the 2010 Hilltops Shiraz Viognier. The Reserve Chardonnay continues in the same vein as our highly acclaimed and multi award winning Chardonnays from earlier vintages. If you... 

Hunter Valley Winemaker of the Year

It is with much pleasure, and pride, that we announce that our winemaker Nick Paterson has been awarded Hunter Valley Winemaker of the Year 2012. Nick is a highly intuitive winemaker who was raised in the Hunter Valley where he was influenced by the likes of his late father David Paterson, Len Evans,... 

Mistletoe Sculpture Prize 2012

The entries are in for this years award. We received over 35 entries this year and prejudging has seen 25 successful entries qualify for the second round of judging to find the winner of the $10,000 prize. The judges have been extremely pleased with the variety and the very high standard of the works... 

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