Anzac Day at Glenora

What a fabulous day out! The annual picker’s day at Glenora was a fantastic success, with more than 130 people attending.
The treat of the day was the chance to pick the fruit for the 2010 Ticklebelly, our flagship Pinot. This beautiful, sweet, luscious fruit filled many kid’s bellies as well as buckets.
The kitchen was abuzz [...]

Irritating Irrigating

As well as being particularly prone to a late frost, Meadowbank’s Glenora vineyard also experiences higher than average summer temperatures – generally around 2 degrees hotter than Hobart. When a heat-wave is looming it is essential that we irrigate the vines – it helps them regulate their temperature and stops the plants shutting down.
So when [...]

Bud Break

Spring has now officially arrived with the first woolly buds beginning to unfurl. The little shoots are very vulnerable to the elements and things will be a little uneasy around here over the couple of months, especially with the memories of last year’s catastrophic frost still fresh in our minds. We’ve had two ‘one in twenty year’ frosts [...]