In keeping birds away from our ripening fruit in the vineyard we haven’t used any protective netting for several years. Instead we employ a multi-faceted campaign, spearheaded by our bird deterrence system. This works by first creating a perimeter around the vineyard created by a network of four radar towers, which both transmits and receives signals to … Continue reading Bird is the word
As our 2012 harvest approaches we began sampling this week to see where were at with sugar levels and the all important relating balance of natural grape acids. Within our 33 acres under vine, we have 21 separate areas of the vineyard expressed through a combination of our 7 vineyard blocks, 3 varieties (Pinot Noir, Chardonnay & Pinot Grigio), … Continue reading Testing, Testing…
Last week we reviewed each and every barrel (as we do every year) from the 2011 vintage to determine the split between our two labels. Before we explain our barrel classification process, first a little about the two labels. Curly Flat and Williams Crossing have always represented exceptional value in terms of purity in both … Continue reading Curly Flat and Williams Crossing…how do we decide?
As we all know wine is best enjoyed with great food. To highlight this fact were holding several dinners over the next few months to showcase the new release 2009 Curly Flat Pinot Noir. We’ll also be showing three older vintages of Pinot (’01, ‘03 & ‘05), which serves as a great opportunity to see … Continue reading 2009 Curly Flat Release Dinners
With the new year well under way, the vineyard at Curly Flat is on track with fruit set completed as of mid December. As of late January, Veraison (where green hard berries begin taking on it’s varietal colour and start accumulating sugars) has begun around 2 to 3 weeks early as have been all the stages from budburst on wards. Whilst the growing … Continue reading Fruit has set and now veraison begins…
Happy new year to all, thanks for reading our blog and happy drinking for 2012! This coming February will see the release of our 2009 Curly Flat Pinot Noir and we’re happy to say that this, the last release of the 2009 vintage, is one of our finest to date. Thankfully it’s not just us saying that! … Continue reading A taste of the year to come!
After 20 months in barrel, the 2010 Curly Flat Pinot Noir now moves onto its next phase. We have now transferred all barrels to tank via our peristaltic pump and the wine will now rest and await bottling early next year. We do this not only to allow any residual lees to settle out, but it also gives … Continue reading 2010 Pinot Noir out of barrel…
As we’ve mentioned fruit set is an important time in any vineyard as it determines the maximum potential crop there’ll be for the coming vintage. We are happy to report that we are currently at around 60% completion of fruit set, where the flowers have successfully pollinated and developed their seeds along with the protective covering we all … Continue reading Fruit set, so far so good…
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