Friday, July 31, 2009

sunset


the days are starting to get a little longer. this at 5.30 pm

Monday, July 27, 2009

Squiffy Island


We have Squiffy Island back. Need a bit more rain to make it look good. Cootamundra Wattle getting fully blown, Golden (Pycantha) Wattle a little behind.

Saturday, July 25, 2009

Shortbread really!


Sally making wheat free shortbread. Mmmmm

Sally's Shortbread



Lloyd Gollop and David Jones at Lewie's party in Ballaarat. Great night! '05 Dalwhinnie Chardonnay, '86 Redbank Cabernet and '88 Sally's Paddock.

Thursday, July 23, 2009

Pelican


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Nice dinner for one off the bar at Pelican, Fitzroy St. St Kilda. This is Mike the friendly Sommelier/Barkeep. Good fun place.

Bendigo



The lovely WineBank building in Bendigo. Great collection of wines. (Including ours).

Sunday, July 19, 2009

Saturday, July 18, 2009

Heading home


Getting back from Melbourne to redbank on Friday night. Interesting sky over the Pyrenees. This photo taken from Quoin Hill.

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Planting olives


Some of the olives were mixed up with thhe Oak trees and not doing so well, so transplanted to site below big dam wall. Muddy! Turned out they are Sevillano, so happy to realize we have more eating olives than I thought.

Wattle


The Cootamundra Wattle is starting to flower. Note full dam behind. Been having a lot of rain.

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Tasting 09s


They are all beautiful, but it is still serious business tasting this year's vintage wines. The Pinot Noirs will need a bit of work.

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Blending


Sash and Scotty heavily involved in a trial blend for the 2008 Sally's Paddock. Looks good.

Monday, July 6, 2009

Mick the Pruner


The loneliness of the long distance pruner. The iPod helps I suppose.

Saturday, July 4, 2009

View


Fixing a blind in the cottage I notice the view from the balcony is as good as we say it is.

Chooks


Have three new Isa Brown chooks. Fresh eggs soon.

Thursday, July 2, 2009

Olives


Putting up some of the 2007 vintage olives into jars. The rest are still in brine but will go for Tapenade.

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Chester


Chester ,
the Redbank Winery horse, don't mind to see the rain.