With October fastly approaching and the weather warming up (at last!), the vines are springing back into life and bud burst is well under way. Many of the regions chardonnay’s had an early bud burst but due to the recent fluctuating overcast and wet weather it has been a rather slow and gradual process. Once [...]

Most of us will be very grateful for some spring sunshine after a very wet and stormy winter. The Bureau of Meteorology released a number of weather warnings throughout the south-west with many sites experiencing flash flooding, high winds and the coldest winter for at least two decades. Rainfall was recorded above the average for [...]