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Red fruit day It’s me, isn’t it? When a wine I love one year because its particularly snappy and sappy quality tips over into something that I kind of like,…

Part 2: Volunteers, vintages and winemaking   How do you recruit volunteers to help at vintage time for Lost in a Field? Glad you asked! Alongside launching the wine project,…

Pure class wines from the Basket Range There is a bit of a debate amongst wine growers and journalists about the state of the natural wine scene in Australia. After…

Part 1: Background, branding, heritage varieties & lost vineyards   Tell us about how you got into wine. I wish I had a romantic origin story, something like sipping a…

Value for money is in eye of the stem holder A cheap wine may offer no pleasure and thus is of zero-value, whereas a relatively expensive wine may indeed confer…

Here is a draft of a letter that we sent to our respective members of parliament, showing our concern about the new Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) measures. To us, they…

  La Stoppa is an ancient estate extending over 52 hectares, thirty of which are planted with vines, surrounding an elegant medieval tower. In 1973, the estate was acquired by…

Today, I was shopping in the local farmer’s market. The weather was beautiful and energising – high pressure prevailed, cloudless skies vibrated with blueness, and the air was the perfect…

Age is not a number, except when it is. Old vines is not the same thing as old grape varieties. These latter were usually indigenous to a region and drunk…

“Wildness reminds us what it means to be human, what we are connected to rather than what we are separate from.”  -Terry Tempest Williams   Every so often, when there…