‘Bob’s Blog’ The French connection: Early days

With our Tintilla French Long Lunch this past weekend I was thinking of why we were so influenced by the French in our winemaking. Timing is everything it is said and when it comes to the development of wine in New South Wales a number of factors came into play. In the UK the Georgian…

‘Bob’s Blog’ It’s about Balance – especially in a hot year

About23 years ago when we were developing Tintilla vineyard we had a visit from Richard Smart, the famed viticulturist, to advise us on what we were doing. He told us of a vineyard in Victoria where they had almost trained their vines to do without irrigation when they suddenly all died! Good fruit he pointed…

‘Bob’s Blog’ for ‘Around Hermitage’

Shepherd’s Riesling – origin of Hunter Semillon While harvesting our Semillon I was asked by one of the pickers “how come Semillon does so well in the Hunter?” Well it was not by accident but as a result of keen observation and experiment in the early days of the wine industry that it emerged as…

‘Bob’s Blog’ The French connection: Early days

‘Bob’s Blog’ It’s about Balance – especially in a hot year

‘Bob’s Blog’ for ‘Around Hermitage’

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