Three Wishes Vineyard

Flowering time in the vineyard is one of the most dangerous times of any vintage. Flowers bloom, and then set to fruit…which ripens and eventually makes its way to the fermenter to make wine (well for grapes at least !). Flowering time in the Tamar Valley is usually around latish november, through to early December on a cooler year. Tassie can be a bitch of a place around flowering time ! Windy, wet and cool on bad years, windy, hot and dry on good years…but always windy. Grape vine flowers don’t like strong winds in case you hadn’t guessed! The 2007 vintage started after the driest winter in living memory, during the driest spring on record, . . .

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