A winemaking family in north-west Victoria has set out to prove that you can make top quality wine in a warm climate with very little rainfall or irrigation. Key points: The bush vine block was planted at Merbein in north-west Victoria in 2017 Just 0.5-1.6ML of irrigation water has been applied per hectare, with commercial wine grapes averaging 6ML The …
A couple of years ago my wife and I visited the Bonny Doon Vineyard near Santa Cruz to sample the offerings of winemaking savant Randall Grahm. “About 25 years ago I started to see substantially less fog, and in the last 20 years, less and less,” said Grahm, and that’s starting to affect California wine. This is a humanity problem.” …
