Last week we attended the annual Australia & New Zealand winemaker’s tour road show run by our distributors, Negociants New Zealand. This 4 city whirlwind trip involves a bunch of Ozzie & NZ winemakers showing of their wines & certainly a fun time is had by all. Each day started with a series of master classes and Nautilus Chardonnay featured in the master class ‘ABC…
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Category Archives: Vintage 2013
ABC to BBC
Tags: 2013, Chardonnay, winemaking
Chip off the old block…
Every year at Nautilus we take on a handful of extra people to help us out over the busy vintage period. The cool thing about our winery is that we are pretty small, and only need to take on 4-5 each year. Which means we can be pretty picky. Somehow this year, a young lady called Jess managed to slip through the net (!) Jess…
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Vintage 2013 Report
A relatively cool start to the season made for a few nights on frost patrol but we were lucky and no real damage was done. The rest of spring & summer went very much according to plan with the accumulation of growing degree days (GDD) looking remarkably normal. Then after Xmas suddenly all the talk was of drought. This meant angst for the dairy farmers…
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Tags: 2013, cj, clive jones, report, Vintage, winemaking
Vintage 2013 Kicks Off!
Hi all, We kicking things off this morning with a small pick of Pinot Noir for Nautilus Cuvee. We regard this as our ‘indicator’ block as it usually at least a week ahead of our next pick. This year we picked on the 6th March. Apart from the very late vintage last year we have picked this block between the 3rd & 11th of March…
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