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MOUNT TERRIBLE

JAMIESON VICTORIA

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The 2018 Vintage:
  • Aug 8, 2018

The 2018 Vintage:

a really good season. Someone must have told the vines how close they got to being bulldozed when I went temporarily blind last year. The...
Best Vintage Ever
  • Aug 5, 2018

Best Vintage Ever

We thought 2015 was a very good year, but we have only just realised how good. The grapes were handpicked and sorted and chilled...
The 2017 Vintage
  • Apr 20, 2018

The 2017 Vintage

Twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen: five good vintages in a row. I was getting nervous. But on Saturday March 18 we picked 6...
Vineyard skies
  • Apr 20, 2018

Vineyard skies

Where the Gods live, obviously…
Grant's Inventions
  • Apr 19, 2018

Grant's Inventions

Everybody knows specialised winemaking equipment is going to be expensive. Planting a vineyard and building a winery, you can save a fair...
Smoke Taint
  • Apr 19, 2018

Smoke Taint

In 2007 and again in 2009 we did not make any wine because the vineyard was blanketed with smoke from bushfires. Noxious chemicals in...
Does pruning cause madness?
  • Apr 19, 2018

Does pruning cause madness?

It probably isn’t a good idea to be writing newsletters in mid-winter. Pruning day in day out doesn’t put you in the sunniest frame of...
2016 Vintage
  • Apr 19, 2018

2016 Vintage

The season got off to a bad start: a hard frost later than any previously recorded in this district. I remember waking up on the morning...
Seven kilometres of nets
  • Apr 19, 2018

Seven kilometres of nets

If we didn’t cover the grapes with fully occlusive netting they would all be eaten by Little Ravens, Currawongs and Bower Birds. The job...
The Hedger
  • Apr 19, 2018

The Hedger

It’s five feet long and it takes no prisoners, but it beats the hell out of a week with secateurs.
Vertical tasting release...
  • Jan 12, 2018

Vertical tasting release...

I was consolidating pallets in the cellar the other week when I came across 12 cases of my first vintage, the 06, that weren’t supposed...
Vintage 2015...
  • Aug 15, 2016

Vintage 2015...

was the culmination of a very good season. A wet winter ushered in a mild spring with below average rainfall. Generally dry conditions...
Bad language...
  • Aug 15, 2016

Bad language...

We went to a famous restaurant recently. $350 a head degustation with matched wines. Appalling extravagance, but a friend knew the owner...
Roman Feast
  • Aug 15, 2016

Roman Feast

Hey! Hey! (or if we’re striving after authenticity: Ohe! Ohe! or Eia! Eia! or possibly even Age! Age! ): as part of the 2015 Melbourne...
The Emperor would like to have you for dinner...
  • Aug 15, 2016

The Emperor would like to have you for dinner...

Stop Press. As part of the 2015 Melbourne Food and Wine Festival, we will be hosting a Roman Feast with authentic 2,000 year old Roman...
2014 Vintage
  • Aug 15, 2016

2014 Vintage

In spring 2013 a series of late frosts burnt newly-burst buds in many parts of the state. We escaped that. Bud-burst here is later than...
The Chook...
  • Aug 15, 2016

The Chook...

Though the lyrebird whose call used to enliven my working day has gone to his eternal reward, he is not forgotten. Craig Eury cut this...
2013 Vintage
  • Aug 15, 2016

2013 Vintage

The 2013 vintage went well – by comparison with the 2011 (rain!) and 2012 (wasps!@**#!!!) very well. We picked on March 16th under...
Mission Statement...
  • Aug 15, 2016

Mission Statement...

The reasons are too complex to go into here, but it is widely accepted all businesses today must have a Mission Statement. For far too...
A cowardly attack on our security staff.
  • Aug 15, 2016

A cowardly attack on our security staff.

It is with sadness we report a vicious and unprovoked attack on a loyal and long-serving member of the Mount Terrible security staff. The...
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