New Years Eve

A few drinks on the deck at Rainbow Gallery, Moonambel. Beautiful!

The Raw Prawn

Boxing Day

A great day on the banks of the Murrumbidgee river at Jugiong for Sandy's second birthday. Janie, Sally, Sasha, Sandy and his mum Juliet.

Christmas Day

Sandy and Jimmy getting amongst it at at great day at Janie and Jeremy's in Wagga Wagga

Tin Reindeer

A bit further up the track there's this! There are others all the way to Wagga Wagga.

Day before Christmas

Heading up the long track to Jugiong for Chrissie with Huw we found the wags at one station property west of Deniliquin trying to cheer up the mailman.

Christmas lunch

Had a wonderful Christmas lunch at The Tea Room above European in Spring St Melbourne with the reps and staff from Inwine, Victoria. Neill, Emma, Liv, Murray, Sam, Scotty, Kate and Nick. Christine Turner ducked out of the photo. Great Lamb and some nice old wines from my cellar.

Sally's Hill

Sally's Hill in the afternoon. From foreground: Merlot, Pinot Noir, Cabernet Sauvignon planted 1975. Merlot then Cabernet Franc planted 1980. Top right (West facing) is Cabernet Sauvignon planted 1988.

Olives flowering

nd the Olives have just about finished flowering, but they took their time this year.

Grapes flowering

The little brown things are the caps which dry up and fall off the inflorescences. They are the cabbage shapes ones. The little white flowers do not require insects to pollinate but there are millions of bees in the vineyard anyway , and they help. The little football shaped ones are the fertilized berries which will grow into yummy grapes.

Verandah view - South

Bottlebrush in flower, Eucalyptus Maculatas, Sally's Paddock, the front gate, and the Redbank State Forest. You can just see the blue Pyrenees in the distance.

From the verandah - West

Can you see Chester and Whiskey? You won't be able to see the ducks.

After the rain

Hundred Tree Homestead on the hill.

Valencia Marmalade

Valencia marmalade made with grapefruit our own Lisbon lemons and Cognac. Strong but Good!

Oranges

Sasha gave Sally a pile of Valencia Oranges from Griffith so a good rainy day for cooking marmalade.

Raining

Rain on the Pyrenees. Great!

November

If you click on the pic you should be able to see the inflorescences. They won't be bunches of grapes until they flower and fertilize in about 3 weeks.

Cabernet Franc October

As it was then

Eugene Casey and Blair Hayden

"Sometimes the host of Princes, always the Prince of hosts."

A quick lunch

Matt and Jason called in briefly to the Lord Nelson Cup Day lunch

on ttheir short lunch break.

Scotty's Wedding

A glorious day for Scott and Kerry.

Hong Kong Tasting

A nice article by Edwina Wong, photos by Alex Chan. A wonderful lunch at The Royal Garden Hotel (Dong Lai Shun) overseen by the incomparable Sommelier Creash Wong and enlivened by my old mate Gary Chu. Had a delightful conversation with Maggie Beale from Epicurus.

Shooting!

Meanwhile, back in the vineyard, the vines are doing their stuff.

Kuala Lumpur

The happy staff at Mines Resort.

Wat Pho

Scotty and Jim at Wat Pho, Bangkok

Hard at work

Actually Friday afternoon after a lot of calls. Of 8 restaurants in the Kampa Group, we are in 5

of them including Hergovina Cehilna and Cowboys. Grand final night, watched it here. Pity about the Cats.

Something Fishy

There's this girl in my room....

Lonely in Prague

Dinner in the Diner

Up the Vltava to Prague.

Adina Hotel

Gregor Siepolt, GM Adina Hotel Berlin. Tim Lockwood, gentleman of leisure. Bradley Mitton, Mitton International. Scott Hutton, Hundred Tree Hill winemaker, at the beautiful Adina Australian Hotel, Berlin.

Tasting in Berlin

Scotty doing the presentation for a wine tasting at Mitton Cellars.

The Wall

One foot East and one foot West of where the Berlin Wall was.

Brandenberg Gate

Checkpoint Charlie

Sightseeing in Berlin

Ah Well....

Possibly time we headed back to the hotel. Have an early flight. Some of us won't need the engines for take off. (It was the California Pinot.)

The Dorchester

Going Posh at the Dorchester

London?-New York?

Well somewhere......

NY subway

A great deal of uncertainty about which train we were on after aa big night out in NYC

trellising

What are they trying to demonstrate, again?

Some time later

Took a while

Waiting for BART

Waiting for the BART at San Francicsco airport

Gold Medalist

An old photo of Sasha who just won Gold (Pinot Gris) and Bronze (Chardonnay) at the Riverina Wine Show. She is currently winemaker for Piramit Wines, Griffith.

Clinton Ang

A recent trip to Singapore to attend the 70th Anniversary of Hock Tong Bee, our agents in Singapore. A wonderful events with Dedication Service, wine dinners, masterclasses and a mini exhibition of the impressive portfolio.

Scotty's World Tour

Scotty is heady off soon on a promotional tour of the USA, UK, Germany, Prague, Tokyo, Bangkok and Hong Kong. As Assistant Winemaker at Redbank Winery he will meet all the agents in the various places, doing wine dinners, trade calls and staff training.

Sorry

Can't get Sandy's Muffin Video up because it was done on someone else's camera. Here's a shot of a box of wine. Not the same thing I know.

Demonstration

Grandson Sandy showing us how to demolish a molasses muffin.

Binh Minh

Here's Minh tasting our wines yesterday at the wonderful Binh Minh Restaurant, 40 Victoria St, Richmond. Melbourne. I was out in the trade all day with Sam Lynch from Inwine.

Korean visitors

`A nice lunch at Dalwhinnie to present local Pyrenees Vignerons wines to a visting delegation from Westin - Chosun. Seoul. Korea.

Pruning

Bad weather won't stop our Mick Robinson from getting on with the pruning.

Sally's Paddock: Raining

Sally's Paddock: Raining

Raining

Its raining, so can't work in the vineyard today and just setting up this blog to connect with our Victoria Winemates website in the US.