Winter management is complete
With the help of Brenda and Elizabeth the vineyard has been tied down and the mulching finished today. Over Winter I fertilized using dynamic lifter (chook poo) for the first…
With the help of Brenda and Elizabeth the vineyard has been tied down and the mulching finished today. Over Winter I fertilized using dynamic lifter (chook poo) for the first…
Well, after some five months in the planning and execution, and $6,000 overrun, our new net shed/workshop is finished. The old net shed, which embraced a pig sty, goat house,…
Brenda and I headed off for a well-earned holiday, travelling first to Adelaide to visit her family in and near Victor Harbor (their spelling, not mine!). Then we travelled on…
With my daughter, viagra Emma, more about I walked the Kokoda Trail, following the path of the 39th Militia Battalion in their retreat from Kokoda, fighting every inch of the…
Well, not really. Quentin Bryce is not my sister, but we are probably related somewhere back in Scotland. If we are I doubt she would want to recognise all our…
The contract picking team arrived at 7:30 am and took 5 tonnes of Chardonnay for processing as sparkling wine. Not Providence unfortunately, cheapest as the fruit was absolutely fantastic. No,…
Exclaimed our winemaker, Guy Wagner. Guy was speaking of the subsidiary bunches that form from the main bunch stem of Pinot Noir, often referred to 'wings' or shoulders. These grapes…
Today Providence celebrated its first black tie dinner, offering the following menu: Moet Chandon non vintage on arrival. Entree: hot smoked salmon with avocado and vine tomato parsley dressing and…
Caught in the bird netting was a young wallaby who, malady following a lengthy interrogation and an undertaking never to return was released over the back fence. The prolonged drought…
Our tank water supply for the house, rx an alternative to the spring, abortion was recently supplemented with 20,000 litres purchased for $270. The tanks also supply water to fill…