News

The Gympie Muster have decided not to renew us as a supplier and sponsor for the event, meaning we won't be attending this year.

A special thankyou to our many supporters over the past 12 years. (David is really going to miss some of those dancefloors!) 

Also a special thank you to our 'Riversands Angels' !

The Good News:

On a positive note, we are very excited to be going to the Birdsville Races September 2&3 this year! David and the crew will be there with the wine and letting their hair down, so come and join us for the ride of your life!

They say, out of adversity comes opportunity. So it's been here. The floods created plenty of havoc, but we're using that to our advantage.

Quite a few trellis posts (the ones that are up and down every row) needed replacing after the floods. The ground swelled whcih has caused some of the posts to dislodge and lean over. So we thought 'while we're fixing the posts, let's take the opportunity to plant some new vines.'

Although our vineyard was heavily flooded, we were still able to harvest some varieties.

In most of our wine styles, we have good reserves up our sleeve for the coming years. We were able to salvage some grapes this year. Whilst our Chardonnay crop was larger than expected the other grape varieties weren't as plentiful. Overall, we expect we have been able to harvest half our usual crop.

Once the grapes have been picked, they need to chill down quickly before heading to Sydney on refrigerated trucks. Our old coldroom did the job - albeit very packed out! We've upgraded from our modest 3.5x6m coldroom to a mammoth 12x14m, 3.8m high coldroom!

Check out the beast!

Top row of pictures were taken before the cement was poured!

Bottom row shows the coldroom as it is today.