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Harvest ’09
Claire & Arabella Looking back towards our house from the vineyard Here are a few pics from this year’s vintage. Picking the Pinot Noir at Astrolabe Farm this day were Jane, Bella & Meg. We...
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Sophie’s Wrap Up
This week I have been manning the office alone as Simon, Jane and Jason have been in Shanghai for a trade show. Jason is now his way home, while Jane and Simon are en route to Ireland, where they are...
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Crafty work down on the farm.
The approaching harvest of the grapes is beginning to dominate life. Nick has been working hard in the vineyard cutting out green fruit and putting on nets. There is a rising sense of anticipation. We...
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Sophie’s Wrap Up
It has been over a month since I put a blog up, so there is a lot to cover, I won’t bore you with all of it, but I will start with the trip to Melbourne that Jason and I did to meet with our Australian...
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Sophie’s Wrap Up- The Start of Vintage
Today we made our first pick for the 2010 harvest for Durvillea and Astrolabe, this is the first pick of about 60 picks that we will do over the next month. The Wrekin The pick today started at 7.30am...
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Easter Eggs and Pinot Noir
We hope everyone had a good easter break! It has been a busy easter weekend here at Astrolabe Farm. Arabella is home for the university mid-term break and Meg arrived home on Good Friday. We got...
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Sophie’s Wrap Up
I can’t believe we are half way through April- what a busy month! I have just been on the phone to our Viticulturist and he tells me we are about 80% done for the 2010 harvest. Most of the Wairau and...
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Winter Harvest down on the Farm
Nets up, after the Riesling was picked Gosh, it is June and we are still harvesting. Today it is fantastic that the Riesling has been picked. During vintage Simon decided it would be the year we made a...
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The Durvillea Diary – October 13th –“Gimme my Cardonnay”
Everyone knows Chardonnay is making a come-back. Durvillea is eager to annouce that in addition to our Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc, Pinot Grigio and Pinot Noir, our 2011 vintage will also include our...
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Autumn is creeping into winter
The harvest is all finished and the vineyards have turned yellow and are now losing their leaves. The last of our grapes were picked on Saturday. Five rows of Riesling at Astrolabe Farm had been left...
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