News
Bellissimo on Balonne menu revealled!
We hope you'll join us at our Italian theme night Bellissimo on Balonne April 28th! It's going to be a very exciting event. There are limited places, so book your ticket now!
In the meantime, we've been busy working on the menu and our costumes!
Look out My Kitchen Rules! The St George High School's kitchen underwent a transformation last week as Marketing Manager Dana Gluzde (who is also a food and wine writer) tasted her way through the menu.
Easter in the Vines
Feel like unwinding with family and friends this Easter?
Visit Riversands!
Our lush vineyard and garden will be buzzing with live music, a sizzling BBQ with cook your own BBQ packs available, delicious scones, mud cake and coffee in our café.
There’s even an Easter Egg hunt to keep the kids busy! Come and find out what the ‘red pig’ is!
Flood to fire back to flood!
Recent floodwaters hit us harder than previous inundations. In what seems like this years ‘annual flood,’ the vineyard was totally flooded with 0.5m of water running past the sandbagged buildings. Up to 3m of water covered the vines in the far blocks while the cellar and coldroom copped ankle deep water for the first time in the vineyards history.
No More Gympie Muster - Birdsville Races In!
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!
Diary of a Traveller
"What's delaying you?" asks Gillian. This plucky traveller, along with her husband Graham (of no fixed abode) and their motorhome are one of the many travellers exploring the West post floods.
Winter down the paddock
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.' |  |
Recovery & Reconstruction - our new look!
Dirt. Check.
Posts. Check.
Nice bloke to put them in.... check.
Looking at the vineyard as it is today, you'd be hard pressed to know that just 2 months ago, we were 90% underwater. Unless you take the 'tradies entrance' down to our bottom block of grapes, you'd never know there was even a flood! |  |
Here's what's been happening down the paddock & up in the cellar |
Floods won't diminish wine supply
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.
2011's Big Wet - What it was like at the peak
Update #3 - 28th January
What a hot past few days! It's the type of weather we needed a few weeks of pre-Christmas to help ripen our grapes!
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