2020: where to begin? November brought high winds and a cold snap at flowering which affected fruit set. This was followed by extreme...

By mid-January it was not looking good. For weeks we'd been on high alert for fires. Then came smoke. We'd gone through all this before,...

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...

was the culmination of a very good season. A wet winter ushered in a mild spring with below average rainfall. Generally dry conditions...

We went to a famous restaurant recently. $350 a head degustation with matched wines. Appalling extravagance, but a friend knew the owner...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

The less you handle wine the better. By ‘handling’ I mean violently mechanically agitating, any manipulation which may expose the wine to...

Must is fresh unfermented grape juice. If, like the Ancient Romans, you have no access to cane sugar, and honey is in short supply, grape...

Falernian, anyone? Roast Boar a la Hortalus washed down with a cup of the blushful Hippocrene? Desperate to dine like the Emperor but...

I find the motion of a helicopter unsettling. A long time ago, in a land far, far away, I had to fly in one. I got so sick the nurse who...

Horse and carriage, love and marriage, Richebourg and DRC Montrachet – if you grow Pinot Noir it’s a crime not to be making a really cool...

The New Mount Terrible Winery is now fully operational. The building is on two levels, a cellar thirteen feet below the ground and the...

The 2012 Mount Terrible Vintage is now safely in barrel and going though malo-lactic fermentation. Too early to predict how this wine...

The 2011 Mount Terrible Vintage has been in barrel for nearly 15 months, and it is now starting to reveal the wine it will become. The...