Time flies when you are working at Wildehurst Wines and having fun!  One minute you are busy with harvest and a bit of bottling and the next minute you are two months away from the next harvest!   This week we are getting ready to bottle the 2016 red blends.  The 2016 wine in barrel…

Usually I describe “The Wilde” as my harvest pet project.  Exciting harvest experiments where I can create something new, play with cultivars and try out different winemaking techniques.  It is the one wine that will change with every vintage!   The maiden vintage (The Wilde 2015) started with 17 picking crates of grapes from Joanne’s…

Three months after harvest and half way through 2017 work here at Wildehurst Wines is only starting to slow down now.  Looking back at harvest 2017 it had its difficulties.  Simply due to the fact that all the vineyards were a little bit confused about ripening.  It was a common phenomenon this season to see…

Good things come to those who love what they do. December! Boy oh boy, what a busy year we had here in Koringberg.  Harvest is right around the corner and the vineyards are looking beautiful. We are busy putting up the bird nets in Joanne Hurst’s garden vineyard and getting the cellar ready for what…

We are more than half way through 2016! The much needed rain finally came and our vineyards got the message that it is time for them to have a short nap before spring. Here at Wildehurst we have been very busy. Chris Hurst celebrated his 80th birthday at the end of May and in his honour we released the maiden…

There’s just way too much to look forward to in the coming days. It is the middle of April and things are finally winding down after the harvest. At the moment the focus in the cellar is to keep the wine that we made with so much passion safe against oxidation and micro organisms that…

To say that 2016 has been interesting so far will be an understatement. Due to the warm dry winter last year vineyards did not have a very good rest and the lack of groundwater caused most vineyards to bud unevenly. It was the earliest harvest on record for Wildehurst Wines. We harvested Chardonnay for bubbly…