by Robin Tedder MW, http://glenguin.wordpress.com/
Over the last week we have been documenting the 2011 vintage from Australia and New Zealand here on B Times, with posts from Ben Glover of Wither Hills and Chester Osborn of d’Arenberg. Next up comes Robin Tedder of Hunter Valley winery Glenguin Estate, with a short post on the 2011 picking of the Tannat grape at his small boutique winery (first posted on 11 February 2011).
On Monday we got out into the vineyards and did the business. We started at dawn and picked up until 9am. Thanks to the warm settled weather we’ve had recently we were able to predict the best picking dates from a while out and we got it just right…the fruit flavours were perfectly ripe.
The Tannat is superb quality though the yield was tiny. We only took 0.4 tonnes off per acre!
Klaus and Rita
And that would be me…eyeballing every basket that goes into our small 1/2 tonne bins.
To read the previous posts from Robin Tedder MW and the team at Glenguin Estate, follow the links below –
Glenguin Estate – Pre-Vintage Update
Beautiful images of budburst from Glenguin in the Hunter Valley
View the fanatstic range from this boutique Hunter Valley winery available at Bibendum Wine - Glenguin Estate range
Tags: Australia 2011 vintage, Glenguin Estate, Robin Tedder MW, Tannat
