Today’s expected temperature is 19 degrees and it is a beautiful sunny day. Brendan and Steve are laying a new slab at the top end of the winery, so we can relocate the press to this more convenient location. This will then allow more room to install four new open fermenters where the press was.

Mat is busy today, and has been busy for the past month, “de-mounding” or removing the mounds from the rows of vines so he can then use the under-vine mower to mow between the vines and rows to eliminate spraying with herbicides.

In the winery Pat has been racking off the reserve wine,
for the sparkling blend, out of the barrels. He has also been preparing the sparkling blends.