vineyard

At Puddleduck we believe that great wine is grown in the vineyard (even the best winemaker can't preform a miricle with bad grapes!) which is why we take such pride in our vinyard and how we manage it. Every vine is cane pruned by hand and trained up through the wires during the growing season to ensure maximum sunlight gets to where it is needed.

At harvest each and every bunch is hand picked carefully by friends and family (bless their cotton socks), and then our grapes are taken to the winery within an hour or two of picking to ensure peak quality, and threfore the best possible end product.

Vintage 2008 saw a very dry drawn out Autumn - great for finishing off the grapes on the vines. They are all now safe at the winery being finished off by our fabulous winemakers, Alain Rousseau and Nick Glaetzer overseen by the watchful eye of Andrew Hood.
We are presently awaiting the last of the beautiful Autumn foliage to drop and the first frost so that we can commence Pruning, a exersise that will take the best part of 6 weeks.

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