Our first Chardonnay and Chenin Blanc under our own label
Journal
Growing Season
A season of two halves with a relatively wet spring coupled with cool conditions through December and January time resulting in a very focused crop vintage.
January and February were extremely hot and dry resulting in a short time period between veraison and harvest delivering beautiful clean, ripe and concentrated fruit.
The growing season was the near inverse to the 2018 vintage!
Harvest
It was a condensed harvest covering just 20 days with the first pick on the 10th March and last on the 30th March. By variety was as below.
Chardonnay: 14th to the 25th March
Chenin Blanc: 23rd to the 30th March
Pinot Noir: 10th to the 26th March
Jeremy Hyland
Vigneron
Hätsch Kalberer
Winemaker
Picking crew
Alizee
Andrew Johns
Aroha
Barry
Carl
Jan Johns
Jeremy Hyland
Jess
Nico
Margaux Demalle
Marine
Vivienne
Richard