Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Rain Delays and some Duckworth/Lewis winemaking

Rainy mornings turned off our Holyman pickers over the weekend... which meant for some slow days, but also some regional exploration to check out how other vineyards and winemakers are doing.



We got some fruit off in the early rain anyway, but when it all got a little too heavy, play was stopped for the day. Mike looks amazing tipping stuff. Just watch him tip up a storm.


Which meant when the sun came out, it was off to the Pipers River Store for bacon and egg sandwiches. A regional speciality, and delicacy savoured by such luminaries in the wine industry as Nick Ryan, known for his finely tuned palate for take away food stuffs.


It's just down the road to Jansz and Delamere from the Pipers River store, so we dropped in to see Nat Fryar at Jansz who had just decided to play chicken with her Subaru and her vineyard managers 4WD not long before we arrived. Nothing a schooner of Hendricks gin and tonic wouldnt fix though.

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