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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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Vines bottle label logo
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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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Vine Terrier / Terroir!
Patina 2
out in the wild
Patina
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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

Snow on the Rimutakas
Snow on the Ranges
Snow on the tops
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the progression of budding
the progression of budding
the progression of budding
Brrrr
bottling line
Pinot band
Crazy pruning

This will not win you Viticulturist of the Year!   

Spied while helping out at a regional vineyard. 

Tim Burton would be impressed.

Food, wine, friends ... good life
the pruning scarecrow
table is et
in North & South mag
Great wine requires a mad man to grow the wine a wise woman to watch over it, a lucid poet
Snippets from socials
Snippets from promos
23 Surf release
23 Bollocks release
23 Desert release
23 Kings of release
23 Prog release
netting Dylan
23 Brat release
Chalkboard event
23 Street release
autumn
netting Moss Oaks
We like the box
The green line
Wine hauling - inpsectors inspect
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