Already many of our wineries are picking the 2012 vintage. And it looks like a beauty! Some, Wild Duck Creek Estate included, already have quite a bit of wine in fermenters.  It's a busy time of the year in Southern hemisphere wineries - in the space of just a few weeks the entire year's fruit has to be picked, crushed and de-stemmed, pumped into fermenters and plunged several times a day (and night!), then pressed and put away into barrels for maturation.  And that makes it sound easy!
    There's not just physical work, though there's plenty of that - the management of the must (acids, temperature, various yeasts, enzymes, preservatives and so on) requires enormous understanding of what you've got in the grape, what you're trying to do with it, and how you're going to get it there.  There won't be much sleep by winemakers for a few weeks!
    Over the coming weeks we will try to get a vintage report from as many of our wineries as possible, and publish it here.  So check back every now and then.  It should be instructive.

Well, it's February 23 and Woods Wines has gone live with our own website.  No-one died, nobody was injured and no buildings were destroyed.  Thats very good, but as anyone who's done this knows, its sweaty work.  Anyway, worst part over, time for a Moritz.  Your feedback on how we can make the site work better for you, would be greatly appreciated.
    Meanwhile, check back here every now and again to see what's going on.  Here we'll list specials for the trade, as well as reports of any food and wine activities we get involved in.

Moritz special
So to kick things off, a special:

How about a 10+1 deal on Moritz beers?  Order 10 slabs and get one free.  That can't be bad can it!  Contact any of our staff to arrange your delivery.  Oh, and if you don't have room for 11 slabs, we can deliver as a 5+6.