Reviews
The season
Our 20th year of growing grapes at Blackenbrook Vineyard!
Mother Nature gave us beautiful spring weather for flowering and pollination, setting us up for a good crop.
Summer was quite wet and the vines grew at a crazy pace. We kept mowing, trimming and leaf-plucking the fruit zone but it was a real struggle to stay on top of the phenomenal growth.
Going into harvest the fruit was clean but extremely fragile – and so were our nerves. But two weeks of stunning autumn weather was all we needed to hand-pick our biggest crop ever with beautiful ripeness and flavours – a challenging season with a happy ending.