http://www.threewishesvineyard.com/index.php/site/index/ en sales@threewishesvineyard.com Copyright 2011 2011-01-24T21:56:01+10:00 http://www.threewishesvineyard.com/index.php/site/three_wishes_chardonnay_finally_gets_a_gold_medal/ http://www.threewishesvineyard.com/index.php/site/three_wishes_chardonnay_finally_gets_a_gold_medal/#When:20:56:01Z After several silver medals over the years for our chardonnays, we have finally bagged an elusive Gold Medal in the Tasmanian Wine show this week -judged by Huon Hooke and James Halliday. This now completes the trifecta, having won golds for our pinot and rielsing in the previous 5 years since our first vintage . The medal was for our 2005 chardonnay, a wine that was rebottled in 2006 after stability problems, and laid down to rest the past 4 years. This same wine was the pick of our 5 chardonnay vintages at a recent tasting at Rathdowne Cellrs in Melbourne, and is available to purchase directly of them (please see link on our web page). It’s a good example that tassie Chardonnay doesnt need to be drunk immediately, and can get much better with maturity. We also won a silver medal for our 2008 Three Wishes Pinot, narrowly missing out on a second gold medal. Although we didnt get medals for our 2009 vintage chardonnay, pinot and rielsing , this has happened in all previous shows to our 1 year old wines, with the following year and a bit of maturity in bottle leading to big improvements in the next showing (2008 riesling-silver, 2007 Chardonnay -silver, 2007-8 pinot silver). We are 100% organic this year (as we were in 2010) and are looking forward to a great crop-fingers crossed !!!! Thanks Peter TWV News 2011-01-24T20:56:01+10:00 http://www.threewishesvineyard.com/index.php/site/hello_usa/ http://www.threewishesvineyard.com/index.php/site/hello_usa/#When:04:17:00Z IF YOU ARE ON MY SITE LOOKING FOR THREE WISHES MERLOT OR CHARDONNAY, FROM CALIFORNIA, NOT ONLY ARE YOU LOOKING IN THE WRONG END OF THE MARKET, YOU ARE ON THE WRONG END OF THE PLANET !! WE HAVE HAD NUMEROUS ENQUIRIES IN RECENT WEEKS FROM AMERICAN CUSTOMERS..BOTH E-MAIL AND PHONE, LOOKING FOR A THREE WISHES WINES COMPETING AGAINST “2 BUCK CHUCK” (DO YOU GUYS REALLY USE THIS NAME IN THE STATES ??). SORRY TO DISSAPOINT YOU, BUT WE ARE A BOUTIQUE TASMANIAN FAMILY WINE BUSINESS WHO PRODUCES SUPER PREMIUM WINES...FEEL FREE TO ORDER AS MUCH OF MY CHARDONNAY AS YOU PLEASE, BUT BY THE TIME IT GETS TO YOU IT WILL BE AROUND $US 50 A BOTTLE. I HOPE YOU UNDERSTAND WE ARE DISSAPOINTED SOMEONE HAS PRETTY MUCH USED OUR WINE BRAND-THREE WISHES (TECHNICALLY OURS IS THREE WISHES VINEYARD..BUT HEY, LETS NOT SPLIT HAIRS SHALL WE..WITH THE ADVENT OF THE INTERNET..DONT WE ALL COMPETE IN A GLOBAL MARKET?). WE HAVE WORKED HARD TO BUILD OUR FAMILY BUSINESS, A QUALITY PRODUCT AND OUR BRAND....EVERYTHING IS HAND CRAFTED. A QUICK GOOGLE SEARCH WOULD HAVE SHOWN ANYONE IN CALIFORNIA THIS BRAND WAS IN USE..TO GIVE YOU AN EXAMPLE, WHEN WE NAMED OUR BUSINESS YEARS AGO, WE WANTED TO CALL IT “BAREFOOT BANK”, AFTER A LOCAL GHOST LEGEND..BUT WE UNCOVERED “BAREFOOT WINES” IN CALIFORNIA..AND ALTHOUGH THIS IS NOT EXACTLY THE SAME NAME, WE DIDNT THINK USING A SIMILAR BRAND NAME WAS THE ETHICAL THING TO DO ..AND BESIDES WE HAVE MORE PRIDE THAN THAT..AND WANTED OUR OWN UNIQUE, INDIVIDUAL NAME..WITH ITS STORY. IF YOU WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT OUR STORY, PLEASE SPEND SOME TIME NAVIGATING OUR WEBSITE… AND HOPEFULLY YOU WILL UNDERSTAND OUR PHILOSOPHY THAT WINE IS..WELL WINE IS MORE THAN JUST WINE TO SOME PEOPLE !! !! THANKS PETER WISH-WILSON (ONE OF THE THREE WISHES) TWV News 2011-01-11T04:17:00+10:00 http://www.threewishesvineyard.com/index.php/site/new_releases_products_update/ http://www.threewishesvineyard.com/index.php/site/new_releases_products_update/#When:09:27:00Z Three Wishes new 2008 vintage wines released at cellar door and for mailing list Just in time for festive season ! To go shopping please click on “our products” Category on the right hand side of this page. I suspect the 2008 Pinot is the best we have made yet. Wine 100 and Penguin Wine Guide writer Nick Stock: “ A lovely Tassie Pinot with a sweetly spiced nose of pretty cherry fruit aromas. Terrific layering of fruit and dark chocolate chew through the palate. There’s even and structured black cherry flavour, with sturdy tannins below. Balanced and shapely” . 93/100. Currently available only through cellar door or mailing list. $40 per bottle.. Xmas e-mail discounts available. Available only through mailing list is also the last stocks of our funky and superb 2007 Chardonnay. Please order through icon above. Other wines available now through mailing list or selected retail outlets are: 2008 Land Bridge Pinot, 2008 Riesling, 2008 chardonnay, 2008 Botrytis Chardonnay. Please contact us for outlet names/contact details in Melbourne/Tasmania. Wine should be enjoyed in moderation and with good friends, remembering good times !! I hope the festive season brings you all lots of smiles and time to reflect on the past year, and the year ahead.....what you do..and what you dont, where you will and where you wont !! Adios 2009-12-07T09:27:00+10:00 http://www.threewishesvineyard.com/index.php/site/wine_stocks_available_update/ http://www.threewishesvineyard.com/index.php/site/wine_stocks_available_update/#When:22:56:00Z SOLD OUT Wines and NEW RELEASES Please note due to my lazy and busy duality the TWV Products needs to be updated to reflect the following: SOLD OUT: Please be advised the 06 Landbridge Pinot and 07 Three Wishes Riesling are SOLD OUT. The Three Wishes 07 Chardonnay is only available at cellar door or through mailing list and we only have a few (25 cases) left for sale. The price for this magnificent wine is now $30 per bottle, with a 6 bottle limit per person. NEW RELEASES: 08 Chardonnay, 08 Riesling, 08 Landbridge Pinot, 08 Botrytis “Sticky” Riesling. Wine photos, prices, reviews and full wine making notes will be posted on website very shortly. IF you would like information immediately, please e-mail me at info@threewishesvineyard.com.au thanks Peter TWV News 2009-09-21T22:56:00+10:00 http://www.threewishesvineyard.com/index.php/site/2009_vintage_report/ http://www.threewishesvineyard.com/index.php/site/2009_vintage_report/#When:21:59:00Z Wow ! 2009 A viticultural vintage to forget...? Consistent wet windy weather and virtually no fruit set in November, drought and record heat waves during veraison, disease and rain before harvest...could it get any worse ??? Sounds like a good year to run for parliament, spend time with the family, surf, build a yatch, get another job and get active in the community !! Well I Haven’t built the yatch yet, in fact I don’t even know how to sail one, thats this years challenge ..but the rest kept me sane! Its coming up to October now and after the winter we have just been through, If I build it too quickly I fear an ocean breakout from the prisoners Island might be in order....thats if the dreaded Bass Strait doesn’t claim by bones first..anyway back to the Vino… Three Wishes Vineyard has suffered from poor fruit set in other vintages (see other blogs), partly due to nutrient (micro) deficiency and bad weather, but this year took the cake. I estimated after a wet, windy and miserable flowering period in November that we were looking at less than half the yield of our 08 vintage. In hindsight I was being optimistic ! We ended up with about 30% of our Pinot and Chardonnay, and 60% of our Riesling when all was said and done in April. Recored heat waves (exceeding that of 07 and 08) with temperatures of 43C in the shade during ripening, poor canopy cover due to drought (maybe I need to irrigate this year ?), lots of small and big berries (hen and chicken) prone to shrivelling in the heat, our first proper outbreak of powdery mildew, Europeans wasps and rain just prior to harvest (onto hot barren ground) causing berry splitting and more raisoning of fruit gave me the most challenging viticultural conditions Ive encountered in my short time on the land. Add to this our desire to keep our chemical and water usage to a minimum, and farm along organic practices, and the challenge was that much more intense… Ho hum...SO HOW IS THE WINE LOOKING ? Most punters will tell you that lower yields give you better quality wine..right ? Well although this is often the case, the jury is out on my 09’s. Berry shrivel and a higher percentage of stalk/stem in the ferment will be interesting...Heres my honest appraisal for wine in tank/barre-ll : 09 PINOT: Big ! Intense colour and plumb/cherry flavours, earthy but lacking fragrance and “bright fruit” characters (such as are pleasing in the 2008 vintage)..the wine is going through Malo and has along way left to run in oak so too early to judge yet 09Chardonnay: Pleasing fruit in the nectarine/peach spectrum, maybe laking some oak and structure at this early stage...6 more months in oak will help. 09 Riesling : Didn’t suffer as much as the other fruit varieties in the vineyard, typical Three Wishes fruit, phenolics and spiciness..creamy with perhaps with more lemon/lime/citrus than the 08 and 06 Rizza’s. Ill keep you posted on how the wines are maturing, either way be have bugger all of them and I don’t envisage the pinot and chardonnay will be for sale until 2011 (at a minimum). cheers Pete Vintage updates 2009-09-21T21:59:00+10:00 http://www.threewishesvineyard.com/index.php/site/2008_vintage_closes_its_curtains_on_a_cold_sunsetfinally/ http://www.threewishesvineyard.com/index.php/site/2008_vintage_closes_its_curtains_on_a_cold_sunsetfinally/#When:05:51:00Z 2008..the year that could have been a perfect Tassie vintage ! What do you get when you combine an unseasonal, record prolonged heatwave at the end of vintage, with a sudden antarctic jet stream cold snap..highland snow, near frost and then a week later a hurricane (180km winds) ? Im not sure just yet, but the tale will unfold when our Rielsing finishes its ferment in a few weeks..nearly one month later than last year ! Luckily for Three Wishes, it looks like our french friends Chardonnay and Pinot, picked on the last two days of the heatwave prior to Easter (late march), is our best and most bountiful fruit yet ! But not their German neighbours next door...caught by General Winter again ! Poor old Rielsing the late ripener, always left to fend for itself when the winter blues start their tunes ! I was told by a wine merchant in Melbourne about a vineyard in the Coonawarra which jumped 6 % alcohol (6 be in sugar) in just 10 days during Adelaides record heatwave in march this year… Apparently the final juice was 20be (degrees alcohol) and had to be given the hose treatment prior to ferment to get it back to an acceptable 15%..! If this is true..well Tassie went the other way !! Large crops of grapes on the vine in late march didnt take too well to the heatwave..Tassie didnt quite cop the same intensity of heat but Three Wishes clocked up a few in the old centrury and one controversial measurement of 38C ! This all one week prior to harvest, just when vines were shedding leaf and grapes are especially prone to Sun damage… We wipped our chard and Pinot of in two days, back to back picks, and they both look superb, but the Riesling seemed to just shut down ..Not two weeks prior my winemaker confirmed what I had already though..the Rielsing block looked superb, healthy canopy and disease free fruit..almost bankable ! I did a quick phone around and it seems other vineyards in the Tamar had the same trouble in the weeks following EAster through to mid may. The sugar levels just didnt seem to move at all..normally we can count on one Be per week..but we got one in 3 weeks ! Why ? Probably better left to someone more qualified than myself..but I think the vines went into survival mode with the cold snap (after such a stressfull two weeks of hot weather), heavy leaf senesence, saving their sugars for vegetative growth (trunk, canes, leaves) rather than for future drinkers ! Anyway well see...A quick few words of summary for 2008 : Uneventful spring this year (no severe frosts like 2007 or Western front style rains and mud as in 2006 !), calm flowering (hence good crop levels), some disease pressure in december leading to a small powdery Mildew outbreak that was nipped in the bud (pardon the pun !), and a slow steady, dry summer ripening period from late january until late march..when it started going haywire...last highlight WASPS !! Everywhere, we lost 30% plus of our Rielsing this year to the nasty little turds..ah yes, they are all gods creatures (?). The long wait, big nest numbers, throw in wild bees and possums...and whats left is for you and me ! Understandably its going to be different challenges every year...just hang in there for the ride and roll with the punches (and it gives me different tangible things to reflect on when Im drinking the profits in future years ! ) Adios AMigos Peter 2008-04-28T05:51:00+10:00 http://www.threewishesvineyard.com/index.php/site/photo_gallery_finally_updateddaily_cellar_door_sales_close_for_2008some_win/ http://www.threewishesvineyard.com/index.php/site/photo_gallery_finally_updateddaily_cellar_door_sales_close_for_2008some_win/#When:09:48:00Z Its raining cats and dogs..finally ! A good chance to catch up on vineyard blogs ! We have now closed our daily cellar door operations, and are only open weekends and public holidays until the end of May. Ive also finally added an extra 40 photos to the gallery, including of the Cellar Door and Vineyard/Farm surrounds..please check them out ! Thanks to my cousin Jo Perry for the photos and me old mate Dr Thomas Moore ! Back to the cellar door and whats left in the cellar… TWV News 2008-04-02T09:48:00+10:00 http://www.threewishesvineyard.com/index.php/site/2006_vintage_mailout_details/ http://www.threewishesvineyard.com/index.php/site/2006_vintage_mailout_details/#When:04:06:00Z Three Wishes is now one month into its cellar door sales for summer and has only a little stock left of our gold medal winning 2006 Rielsing (38 cases) and Reserve Pinot Noir (42 cases)...wine is selling fast. Three Wishes Vineyard has decided to do its first annual wine mailout to those who have expressed an interest in our wine...to get the vintage finished up so to speak !  If you received an e-mail from us, you left your details at our cellar door, or you have previously bought wine or expressed interest. If this is not the case (pardon the pun) please let me know ASAP and I will remove you off the list...More details on the wines and prices can be found under “our products” tab but just a quick summary anyway..(ie winemaking techniques etc) 2006 Riesling -One of 3 Gold Medal winners at the Tasmanian Wine Show in 2007. 93/100 by James Halliday who outlined 10plus years cellaring potential. A most complex but pleasing wine, with heaps of character and potential. Has been sold in most of Launceston’s top restaurants, and by the glass in ARIA Restaurant in Sydney...(Winner of Australia’s best Restaurant Wine List last year). Hurry, not much left ! 10% Discount for cases (A$25.00 per bottle as part of a dozen) 2006 Chardonnay -Just released, not shown in any wine shows yet. More in the chablis style than an Aussie chard, delicate, complex with confectionary stone and citrus fruit and savoury overtones. Great served chilled on a summers day or an even better wine paired with food. Funky nose from wild yeat fermentation, will continue to develop the “stink” with a few more years in bottle..my guess is this one will cellar for 5-10 years no problem. (A$20 per bottle as part of a dozen). 2006 Landbridge Pinot -The best selling wine at our cellar door. Earthy, savoury sweet pinot fruit on the nose with a silky smooth palate of spicy plumb, cherry and red fruit. Has power but finesse and will continue to develop . Bronze Medal Winner at Hobart International Wine Show (just missed a Silver by half a point !) ...did well compared to many Tassie Pinot’s from this vintage.  (A$20.00 per bottle as part of a dozen). 2006 Three Wishes Pinot -Very limited supply, being shown in Tassie Wine Show this week. Big bold and complex (as usual !), the wine has spicy, perfumed aromas of violet, betroot and red fruits, with a dark colour and great consistency of palate. Starting to develop “the funk” on the nose with earthy, barnyard overtones..should continue to develop with time-drink now or put down for 2-10 years. (A$35.00 per bottle). Order via e-mail, please send your order and address. I will confirm price and get in touch for payment details (we can take orders via email or phone using credit card facilities) or we can send you direct debit details if you prefer. Have a great new year, and dont forget our 07 Vintage is the best we have made yet..to be released late 2008 (see Blog -Vintage Update for 2007 “From the Winery"). Adios Amigos Peter Vintage updates 2008-01-13T04:06:00+10:00 http://www.threewishesvineyard.com/index.php/site/2007_vintage_update_and_comments_from_the_winery/ http://www.threewishesvineyard.com/index.php/site/2007_vintage_update_and_comments_from_the_winery/#When:19:14:01Z 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… TWV News, Vintage updates 2007-12-05T19:14:01+10:00 http://www.threewishesvineyard.com/index.php/site/three_wishes_gets_a_straight_flush_at_tassie_wine_show/ http://www.threewishesvineyard.com/index.php/site/three_wishes_gets_a_straight_flush_at_tassie_wine_show/#When:01:46:00Z Wine shows are serious business for small boutique vineyards, especially new businesses like us, who are trying to get their name and brand established. In fact, as a wine grower, if you were granted three wishes, one might very well be winning gold medals and trophies in your first three wine shows ! Last weeks 2007 Tasmanian wine show was another pleasant surprise for Three Wishes Vineyard. Following on from a gold medal in our first release Pinot from last years show, we were fortunate enough to win a gold medal again this year, but surprisingly in our 2006 Riesling.  TWV News 2007-02-10T01:46:00+10:00