This Saturday was our second day of olive picking for 2010. We are lucky to have volunteers that help every year to bring in the harvest. This year’s team were Jane, Simon, Meg, Arabella, Sophie, vineyard manager Nick, Jono (for the third time in a row!), my aunt Sarah, uncle Stuart, and cousin Rose. Later [...]
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Winter Harvest down on the Farm
June 18th, 2010 · No Comments · arabella, astrolabe farm, durvillea, family, food, harvest, jane, meg, recipe, vintage
Gosh, it is June and we are still harvesting. Today it is fantastic that the Riesling has been picked. During vintage Simon decided it would be the year we made a Noble Riesling so the nets went back on.
We last did this in 2007. So then we waited and waited. The weather was fine and [...]
Tags:dessert wine·Mushroom soup·noble riesling·noble riesling harvest·olive harvest·recipe
Easter Eggs and Pinot Noir
April 6th, 2010 · No Comments · arabella, astrolabe farm, durvillea, harvest, meg, vintage
We hope everyone had a good easter break!
It has been a busy easter weekend here at Astrolabe Farm. Arabella is home for the university mid-term break and Meg arrived home on Good Friday. We got straight into some chores – waterblasting, mowing, harvesting the quince and picking up walnuts. This was all in preparation for [...]
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Sophie’s Wrap Up- The Start of Vintage
March 26th, 2010 · 1 Comment · durvillea, harvest, sophie, vintage
Today we made our first pick for the 2010 harvest for Durvillea and Astrolabe, this is the first pick of about 60 picks that we will do over the next month.
The pick today started at 7.30am at the Wrekin Vineyard, up the Brancott Valley which is part of Southern Valleys. As there are so many [...]
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Sophie’s Wrap Up
March 16th, 2010 · No Comments · On the road, durvillea, harvest, sophie, vintage
It has been over a month since I put a blog up, so there is a lot to cover, I won’t bore you with all of it, but I will start with the trip to Melbourne that Jason and I did to meet with our Australian distributors. In Australia we have separate distributors for each [...]
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Crafty work down on the farm.
March 9th, 2010 · No Comments · Dean Betts, astrolabe farm, durvillea, harvest, marlborough wine and food festival, recipe, sophie, the girls, vintage
The approaching harvest of the grapes is beginning to dominate life. Nick has been working hard in the vineyard cutting out green fruit and putting on nets. There is a rising sense of anticipation. We are beginning to watch the weather carefully and notice the cooler nights. So far so good.
As well as the grapes, the [...]
Harvest '09
June 30th, 2009 · 2 Comments · astrolabe farm, harvest, vintage
Claire & Arabella
Looking back towards our house from the vineyard
Here are a few pics from this year’s vintage. Picking the Pinot Noir at Astrolabe Farm this day were Jane, Bella & Meg. We also had much appreciated help from our cousin Claire and her partner David.
It was a great Marlborough day that day. [...]
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