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...
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...
As we near the end of another year, we’ve paused to reflect (from the beautiful Hunter Valley). 2022 started with the cancellation of the biggest wine show in Adelaide, the Cellar Door Fest Summer Edit. Fortunately this would be our last COVID related delay, and...
The second of the La Niña years proved fruitful. Strong winter rains for the second year running put life back into the Valley, and after catching their breath in 2021, the vines were raring to go. We experienced a lot of luck this year, although it eventually ran...
