2024 Vintage Notes

A dream vintage, with our first nouveau-style Pinot Noir

Journal

Growing Season

An unusually dry winter led to low soil moisture levels at the start of our growing season which continued and intensified. While the threat of fire risk loomed, the hot, dry days and cool summer nights provided low disease pressure, resulting in extremely clean fruit and joyous harvesting conditions. The berry flavours were superb – bright, vibrant and concentrated.

Harvest

Blocks ripened quickly, with a very short period from veraison to harvest, but in an orderly fashion allowing us to strip pick pristine fruit in optimal condition with no stress.

Aside from the first pick of Pinot for some Methode from the vineyard on the 26th February, harvest took 28 days from the 7th March to the 4th of April. After a slow first week we picked 60% of our harvest in 8 days.

Picking dates:

Chardonnay: 12th March to the 20th March

Chenin Blanc: 28th March to the 4th of April

Pinot Noir: 7th March to the 28th of March

Jeremy Hyland

Jeremy Hyland

Vigneron

Hätsch Kalberer

Hätsch Kalberer

Winemaker

Margaux Demalle

Margaux Demalle

Assistant Vigneronne

Picking crew

Ashleigh Barrowman
Andrew Johns
Andy Crone
Anna Johns
Autumn Lawler
Hazuki Kishii
Jan Johns
Janine Goedbloed
Jeremy Hyland
Kirsty Hyland
Margaux Demalle
Mie Yamanami
Morgane Botton
Theo Luttringer

Wines

Photobook

A visual record of people, events and moments from the 2024 vintage.

Every day we have smoko with coffee and fresh baking from Jan, Kirsty or one of the team. Moral is high.
At the end of each day we wash and stack our bins to dry and it became a competition to see who could master the largest pyramid...
In many rows of the vineyard we adopt an alternate to topping the growing tips and instead train the vines into a heart shape. This is called "tressage", a french word which translates to braiding.
Margaux giving the carbonic maceration Pinot a light foot stomp to release juices later in the cycle.
Margaux sending peace abroad with her delicious load of Pinot Noir on it's way to the winery a few hundred metres away for processing.
During harvest Jeremy leads a daily smoko quiz aiming for that magic 15/15 which is rare as hens teeth
Tilly loves swimming in the dam year round, no matter how cold!
Jeremy discussing our wines at a tasting dinner held at Fidelios wine bar
Our 2016 Pinot Noir paired with dessert at Fidelios wine bar
Autumn Lawler pruning the Chenin Blanc dam-side block
Looking West with our farm in the foreground and Richmond Ranges in the background
Enjoying the fading sun on a lovely winters evening by the dam
Looking down from the Chenin Blanc dam-side block on a cold winters morning.
Looking back over the Chenin Blanc blocks during winter pruning