Dan's Harvest Updates

And they're off...

Dodging intermittent storms, we have picked most of our white fruit. First was the Chardonnay from the blocks at All Saints and St Leonards. We hand-pick the oldest block for use in our Family Cellar and Wahgunyah wines. These are made in what is loosely described as a ‘Burgundian' technique. What this means is whole bunch picking and gentle pressing. The juice is settled overnight and then racked to barrel for fermentation. The wine then spends a year or so in the barrel with the yeast lees. These lees are regularly stirred with a stick (battonage in French which, like most things translated, sounds far sexier in the original). Then the wine is bottled.

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