We went about assisting loved ones big and small, old and young, and assessing damage at home, on farms and in the vines. In the early hours of Monday October 14 we were woken to a thunderous rumble, as the 7.8 magnitude quake made its way from the epicentre near Hanmer Springs, up to the top end of the South Island and beyond.Īfter an unsettled sleep, or complete lack of, we will all remember that day as being eerie, disjointed and very unsettled. When Mother Nature decides to shake things up a little bit, it takes us all by surprise. And it takes a mighty earthquake to remind us that nature can also destroy wine. Nature creates the ability for the grape to develop, ripen, and ferment, thus creating wine. Nature and earth are far more powerful than the humans who inhabit it, and within the wine industry it is them, not us who take charge.īut it seems to work well and we know our role and the demands of each month what the changing of the seasons means, how the vineyards will react, and the timetable in the cellar to prepare for both the following harvest and consumer and customer demands. The murmured comments of ‘tank space for harvest of 2017’ are voiced. Within the world of tanks and barrels, it’s busy times for winemakers and those in the cellar as they tweak blends and send wine down the line for bottling. Within a blink and few baited breaths during frosty mornings, a healthy sea of green leaves encompasses the entire approximate 22907 hectares of vines in Marlborough.Ī few weeks later, flowering and yield estimates set the viticulture teams to task. Amongst the wine industry, the first sign that things are starting to warm up is bud burst in the vineyards.
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