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All the luncheons are eating into valuable pruning hours. Continue

The Great French Wine Blight. Are we at risk of the modern version? … Continue

I rarely plug anything, but I have to give a big plug for NovaNation! It is one of Australia's new digital radio stations with "the full spectrum of dance including House, Breaks, Trance, Techno - in high quality aacPlus audio. " All I need now is a digital radio player for the winery! "you're the only guy I know who listens to this stuff and doesn't take drugs!" a vigneron on my enjoyment of dance music. Continue

After five months and one week the 2009 fruit intake has ended! It's certainly been the longest vintage I've ever been involved in. Gruelling by any measure, though an absolute thrill to be a part of nine different white varietals, six different red varietals and four different wine styles. Sheer Bedlam! I left the winery this morning at a shade after midnight with the press still humming and whooshing away. Botrytised Semillon that got the full twelve hour press treatment. This was after start… Continue

It's pruning season and there's nothing worse than pruning in the rain. BUT, the drought takes precedence so bring on the rain. Continue

Whilst all of my peers have long had holidays after a testing vintage, I'm still going! If the Botrytis wines from Adelaide Hills weren't so good I would have finished ages ago. The reality is the Bot Sem of Magpie Springs is stunning. At 19.2 Baumé and 3.6 pH the juice is golden, zesty and concentrated. Enjoying these type of wines during the cold is a buzz though means that "the Bedlam Wines nut case" is still crushing grapes in June. Bedlam Wines is unique wine label as I produce each year w… Continue