Soil your undies: a simple soil test
Burying cotton underwear in the vineyard sounded mad, until we dug up one pair almost fully decomposed and the other ...
Natural
Limestone - Holy grail or charismatic illusion?
One soft, slowly dissolving rock is synonymous with great wine, and it is extremely rare in Aotearoa New Zealand. Ste...
Viper's bugloss: a treasure trove to share
Known here as blue borage, Echium vulgare is a weed to farmers, a top tier honey plant to bees and the namesake of ou...
Riparia Gloire: vine husbandry over genetics
Our Snake's Tongue block turns out to be grafted to a rootstock most organic growers avoid, yet it has been dry farme...
It's Chardonnay time - Harvest Diary
Three years into our regenerative programme the Omahu vineyard feels alive, and today it gave us some of the most bea...
Time for a new conversation
Nature does not make wine, people do, which is why Steve Smith MW is uncomfortable seeing our Orange badged as a natu...