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Wine Life

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Gentle & elegant handharvesting
Repairing birdnets. Laborious.  And somehow brings on the need to sing shanties while working
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Capfall. Post-flowering
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Fungi in the interrow.  In summer!  Should not happen.  Nevertheless, good indicator of soil health
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It may look like we're installing a giant basketball hoop, this is in fact a lidar array, surveying ground water across the Wairarapa district. Summer 2023

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Atmospheric aersols from the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai eruption created majestic purples and pinks across 2022/23

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RocketLabs launch streaking through the frost-fighting dawn. Spring 2022

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Vines responsible for the 2023 Rosé. The day of harvest at Moss Oaks

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the progression of budding
the progression of budding
the progression of budding
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This will not win you Viticulturist of the Year!   

Spied while helping out at a regional vineyard. 

Tim Burton would be impressed.

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Great wine requires a mad man to grow the wine a wise woman to watch over it, a lucid poet
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