Three Wishes Vineyard

Early vintage woe and peril (frost, bush fires -see previous Blog ) led to a long and drought stricken, but largely uneventful 2007 vintage (we however did have golf ball size hail stones land within a few hundred meters of the vineyard on boxing day, the same storm trashed my uncles garden across the road !). Yields from our 3 hectare vineyard were predictably low at harvest after frost, poor fruit set and no rain during veraison (ripening period), but were on average better than I originally expected.

If our cloud has a silver lining, its that the quality of our fruit was superb. Its an early call, but Id say tasting all three wines will be our best yet !

What makes me proud is this vintage quality has been achieved with a chemical spray program which was virtually organic...we had only one non organic pesticide this 2007 vintage (out of a recommended spray program of dozens of chemicals) and no insecticides...we have 3 years to go to get to 100% organic …although weeds could be our downfall here without some serious mulching or re-sowing of clover…

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