Nigel’s Harvest Blog 2024

Wednesday May 1st Today I can celebrate the fact that my intermittent blogs now come with added colour as our new website platform allows me to include pictures. So, we’re going to kick off with a brief summary of harvest with the glamour of added pixels. This weekend will be the last and probably the […]

Independent Certification’s….

Independent Certification’s…. “International Wineries for Climate Action (IWCA) is a collaborative working group of environmentally committed wineries taking a science-based approach to reducing carbon emissions across the wine industry.Our goal is to share best practices that mitigate climate change impacts in vineyard and winery operations so that we can act collectively to decarbonize the global […]

October 2023, Sustainability is not that simple….

It’s not as simple as that…  Sustainability.  How many times do you hear this word thrown around? Nothing is completely sustainable, it is a destination that is only approached. But almost any aspect of this subject is fraught with problems and the deeper you delve, the trickier it gets.   I was on a big […]

May 2023, Exceptional vintage?

I have been watching… at a safe distance… the general hysteria that is the annual Bordeaux en-primeur campaign. Each year it begins with loud proclamations of another extraordinary vintage, the like of which has been rarely, perhaps never encountered before. Ignore the all time high pricing, buy now, or be forever regretful. Bordeaux might have […]