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 [...]
Entries Tagged as 'viticulture'
Easter Eggs and Pinot Noir
April 6th, 2010 · No Comments · arabella, astrolabe farm, durvillea, harvest, meg, vintage
Tags:2010 Marlborough vintage·arabella·astrolabe farm·chickens·Easter·family·marlborough·meg·pinot noir·vintage·viticulture
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 [...]
Tags:nz music·sophie's wrap up·sounday·tasting·vines·viticulture
Update from the Vineyard
September 4th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized
It is the end of another busy week in the Durvillea and Astrolabe office, and with Jason and I off to Australia on Sunday to visit our Australian distributors, I have managed to run out of time to do my end of the week wrap up.
Spring
However as it is the beginning of spring and the [...]
Sophie's Wrap Up
August 28th, 2009 · No Comments · astrolabe farm, sophie
Another busy week! After arriving back into Blenheim from Hawkes Bay we were treated to a lovely afternoon tea with Jane and Simon, and a quick debrief of the last week as we had all been away.
The 2009 Durvillea Pinot Grigio was bottled on Monday, after worrying that the labels weren’t [...]
