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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 [...]

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Sophie’s Wrap Up

April 20th, 2010 · No Comments · arabella, durvillea, recipe, sophie, vintage, wellington

I can’t believe we are half way through April- what a busy month! I have just been on the phone to our Viticulturist and he tells me we are about 80% done for the 2010 harvest. Most of the Wairau and Awatere Valleys have been picked, apart from few blocks of Sauvignon that are being [...]

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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 [...]

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Sophie’s Wrap Up

November 20th, 2009 · 1 Comment · astrolabe farm, durvillea, family, sophie, vintage

This week I have been manning the office alone as Simon, Jane and Jason have been in Shanghai for a trade show. Jason is now his way home, while Jane and Simon are en route to Ireland, where they are to be joined by the girls to launch Durvillea Wines next week.
However, being the only [...]

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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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