By Rob Pickard
We first saw this new range of single vineyard wines from d’Arenberg when Chester Osborn and the team fly over to the UK for the London International Wine Fair. The grapes for these beauties are sourced by Chester from individual plots throughout the McLaren Vale, and with small batch production, they firmly sit at the top …
By Chester Osborn, www.darenberg.com.au
Running up to the beginning of March there was average rainfall in both winter and spring, which has ensured adequate sub-soil moisture, with very healthy canopies. With this has also come very mild day time temperatures and cool nights during the summer months, which has ensured a very late start to the vintage….
By Gareth Groves
Australia’s McLaren Vale wine region is under threat from a proposed new development that would turn 177ha of land into a commercial centre with 1,200 residential homes – despite the fact the site has just been indentified as one of the most exciting for wine production in the region.
The McLaren Vale generates nearly Aus$1 billion in wine and …
Woop! It’s a Bank Holiday weekend. Boo! It’s the last one until Christmas – and that is officially a long time away. Nevermind, after last week’s meteorological pessimism, today I have decided the glass is half full…
