We’re excited to release the 2022 vintage of our ‘Duck, Duck, Cat’ Grenache! 2022 was a solid year for both quality and quantity and one of the first where the environment was on our side (full vintage report here). Late summer rain caused some...
The start of the viticultural year, winter, was a busy one for us. We hit the road for the Good Food and Wine Shows, going to our first (standard) show in Melbourne as well as our first time over to Perth, with Sydney in-between the two. In the background to that, we...
We are thrilled to share that we will be participating in Wine Australia’s Trade Tasting 2024 in London and Edinburgh later this month, on January 30th and February 1st respectively. Our wines for tasting will include: ‘Island’ Rosé 2023 ‘Duck,...
It’s been a massive year for Sarah and I, travelling the country, creating brand new wines and putting more into Genista than ever before. As the calendar year of 2023 comes to a head, a lot of other “years” run concurrently around it. The grape growing “year”...
The season of 2023 started strong. Coming off the back of a heavy crop in 2022, we enjoyed strong winter rains and entered our third La Niña year. The problems of 2022 loomed over us – for what had been a kind year environmentally was instead the most challenging year...
