By Rob Pickard
Here on B Times we often feature stories of wine producers doing there bit for the environment and joining the ever growing green movement seen in vineyards around the world, so whether it’s land managment, water and wetlands management or sustainable winemaking, its featured here over the last …
The Bibendum Times wine of the week post is usually our spot to wax lyrical about a wine we’ve been drinking recently, with a few random facts on the producer and the region they call home. Well this week we are bringing you our wine of the week with a difference, via the wonder that is …
By Rob Pickard
Following on from last week’s post, The Vineyards of Europe – In Pictures, where I posted a few images we had dug up following a sort out of our photo library here in the Marketing department. Here is another selection of great photos, but this time from a few of our New World producers.
Accumulated over the years, these are just …
By Rob Pickard
The Barossa Valley is a region familiar to most wine drinkers, from the everyday Barossa reds from your local supermarket, to high end boutique wineries producing some of the world’s finest Shiraz. Most wine drinkers are big fans of that silky smooth, fruit driven, full bodied style created in the region. However I would take a guess that very few are aware …
By Chris Rodgers, St Hallett
Yes, it’s been wet in the Barossa too!
The last big rain was on March 8th, but it didn’t cause anywhere near the berry splitting or disease that some people have been talking about. There was some Downy Mildew back in November and December, but this only caused minor crop loss in Grenache, and has since dried …
By Rob Pickard
In our attempt to keep you posted on all things 2010 vintage and harvest related, we have been following the news from the Lion Nathan stable down under. Scroll down for the reports from Mitchelton and Stonier in Victoria and Petaluma, Knappstein and St Hallett in South Australia. It seems 2010 was an interesting and successful vintage for all the teams, with the promise …
By Dan Coward
They say that a day is a long time in politics. Well imagine thirty long days of politics and you’ll get an idea of how ready Australia has been to vote in the general election. Not just because people want to do their democratic duty, but also so that we are spared any more negative political advertising. Both of the major parties have been …
by Dan Coward, Lion Nathan Communications & Partnerships Manager
St Hallett’s senior winemakers, Toby Barlow and Stuart Blackwell (above), are the self-proclaimed hip-hop and hip-replacement of Barossan Shiraz. And both the zimmer frame and the diamond encrusted cane get plenty of use as they sashay their way through dozens of small fermenters and about 110 different Shiraz parcels each vintage. This is the backdrop to …
By Dan Coward
Straw cover in Scholz vineyard
In my previous vintage update I mentioned St Hallet’s small batch system. The value of this approach becomes very clear when I’m bumping around the vineyard in Toby’s 4×4 on his rounds of the vineyards. Along with Viticulturist and Grower Liaison, Chris Rogers, in the back, there isn’t much these two …
By Dan Coward
Small Ferments
The vintage at St Hallett is firing along on all cylinders. And that’s a lot of cylinders, believe me! For St Hallett, part of the skill is juggling an extremely lively tank schedule with such a range of fruit sources and picking schedules. When Stuart Blackwell meets me at the door he cuts straight to the chase and …
