04/03/2025
Grapes of 2025 🍇
We’ve started harvesting our 2025 crop! These pictures are from our first pick of Shiraz - destined to become a barrel aged rosè/ rosato style.
A warm and dry year, along with some new approaches to ourselves and farming, has meant some very concentrated and flavoursome berries.
Through a deepened understanding that the farmer is the central organ (heart) of the farm organism and the land we have had the confidence to take a much more hands off approach to farming grapes this year. We’ve allowed the vines to generate their own energy, utilise their own immune system and produce a balanced berry with lots of flavour.
We’ve continued to dry farm with no supplementary irrigation and also taken a zero input approach - no foliar sprays or soil amendments. This aligns with our understanding that allowing the vines to seek out the living water that’s held within the soil and team up with microbes to source nutrients will not only result in long term soil regeneration, but also result in the highest quality product. Well being, regeneration and deliciousness to sum it up.
Our approach to farming is quite unique in that our main focus has been to create the space for microbes, plants and animals to do their thing and maintain the land in a state of regeneration. Most of what we have done is work on ourselves and limit the amount of our imprinting on the land. We are very grateful to be able to receive such delicious fruit as a result of this process, as the secondary focus of ours is to grow and make delicious wine as naturally as possible. Something we are in the process of achieving this year!
Looking forward to what the rest of harvest has to bring!!!