The grapes are colouring up nice and accumulating the sugars. Nows the time the birds will be looking to get into the grapes. The Castel a...

Each year is different and you see that some years start out very similar to other years gone by but things can change very quickly. This ye...

 Mid summer and the end of July finds us in a good but bad situation. The good news is the grapes have pretty much never looked better. Big ...

Well following an uninspiring cool spring we entered summer but without the heat. The heat is now here having arrived the second week of Jul...

The weather is really the wild card every season. Some aspects are controllable, including the type of vine you choose to grow - matching it...

 So you'll notice the choice of words "cold" to describe the weather. Its been cold with May vomming in at about 11c average f...

So a few years back we began clearing more land to expand the vineyard. The piece of land next to the vineyard was full on forest land and t...

 May 1st and things are a bit behind this year with the weather. We usually have some small early leaves comming out on the trees last 2 wee...

Well just like that the snow was all but gone in just a few days and this led to first round of pruning. This next 3 images are March 28, 29...

We rarely see cold in the -23c area, in fact up until a few days ago we've only seen these temperatures 2 times in the past 14 years - n...