The weather is warming, it must be time to go fishing. I can bottle the Chardonnay in the next few weeks and will put down the Sparkling Blanc de Blanc for "in bottle" fermentation shortly. (Methode Traditional) All the white this year have a nice acid finish. The 2010 Semillon just bottled is very pleasing and I need to catch a good feed of fish to have with it. It has some nice lemon lime characters. All I need is the weather to be on my side and it's dinner with the catch of the day and a crisp clean Hunter Semillon.

We have just got our new labels with the facility to print small run details at home and keep label costs down. We have also just bottled the 2009 Cabernet Sauvignon produced from 100% certified organic grapes from Mudgee. It shows nice blackberry aroma with a hint of eucalyptus. A full rich pallete with good length. This wine will develop nicely over the next 5 years.

We have created a system to feed grapes through the crusher destemmer and pump to fermenter or press via a cooling circuit. This has removed a lot of the manual work of getting grapes from bin to crusher. The grapes are 2009 Hunter Shiraz machine harvested. Since then the system has been further improved. When processing hand picked Hunter Semillon or Hunter Chardonnay grapes the cooling of the "grape must" allows pressing cold which helps a lot with the quality. I prefer all grapes to be hand picked even if it costs a little more.

Welcome to my wine blog

I started in 2005 with two mates producing 3 barrels of shiraz, one each, as a hobby.

We are now in-process to commercialize the winery while still retaining some of the features of the "winemaking club" that has evolved.

When this is finally approved we hope to release some of the wine for normal commercial sales.

We typical produce well known Hunter varieties Shiraz and Semillon and some Chardonnay as well Cabernet Savignon but using Mudgee grapes.