Summary Hand-picked by volunteers, friends and family, 2019 was our 5th grape harvest. The traditional champagne varieties: Pinot Noir, Pinot Meunier and Chardonnay were planted in 2012, some vines are not yet mature. Grape quantity was significantly up versus 2018 especially the Pinot Noir, which excelled. Each year the local conditions throw us new challenges […]
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2017 Grape Harvest is approaching
We’re excited to be approaching our 3rd grape harvest sometime in the last 10 days of October 2017. As our vines mature the potential for more grapes increases. Until this year we’ve pruned each vine back to 1 cane (Single Guyot). This year the better established vines have been pruned using the Double Guyot method, […]
Continue readingGrape Expectations in Hickling Pastures!
The last month has been a scramble, we found ourselves with masses to do to keep up with the rocketing vine growth. We hired 3 part time staff and together we have been busy pruning the smallest vines and tying in the larger ones; caring for the wind break trees and putting up canopy management […]
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