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WHO WE ARE
Meet the team
Grant
Grant enjoys spending time in the vineyard, improving the vines and tending to the grapes. He gets very excited in early Autumn each year when he gets to test for baume and things get busy in preparation for harvesting. Grant is particularly enjoying the most recent 2017 vintage. If you are interested in trying Heybridge wines, get in touch!
Jessie
No vineyard is complete without a wine dog and we've got the world's best! Jessie keeps us company throughout the long winter months of pruning as well as checking the depth of the dams for us through summer. She will be the first to greet you when you come to see us - when you get past the woofing welcome she is likely to lick you to death.
WHAT'S HAPPENING?
Keep up to date with what is going on in the vineyard right now and what's coming up next.
We always love for our friends and supporters to be involved in the creation of our Heybridge Estate vintages, so please contact us if you would like to get involved!
Winery and Tasting Room
22 October 2021: Finally the winery is set up to welcome you to come and try our wines... get in touch if you want to come and try one of our great shirazes, and take some home with you too!
Dry Vintage 2019
16 March 2019: Following a dry summer, we picked a small harvest of great fruit, which is now off to be crushed and fermented.
Frosts... and Recovery
25 November 2017: We got hit hard by a black frost on the night of 4 November 2017. But, the vines are making a steady recovery and it looks like there is some fruit coming. We just hope it will ripen for 2018 vintage.
Winter Dormancy
2 July 2017: Following an excellent harvest of almost 8 tonnes of grapes in March 2017, the vineyard has now dropped all the leaves and moved into winter mode. The frosts are here and we start to think about pruning in readiness for a new spring. At least we get to enjoy some wonderful mornings, and Heybridge shiraz by the fire at night!
Grape Crush
19 March 2017: The picked grapes go through the crusher-destemmer and into the fermentation tanks. A pretty quick way to do the crush, and definitely easier than using your feet!
Picking Begins
19 March 2017 - With grapes looking great, picking started today. We picked 800 kilograms off the small block and crushed on-site for the first time. A group of five families are involved in making some wine co-op style. We've now got a roster to plunge the must three times a day as it ferments.
Launch Day
10 December 2016: Launch day is here. We celebrated with a number of our regular helpers and supporters. Everyone enjoyed both the 2013 and 2014 shiraz vintages and a range of excellent cheeses. Thank you to those of you who were able to make it along.
Sign Goes Up
10 December 2016: Just in time for our launch, the front sign has gone up on a temporary frame. We have plans for putting it on some posts, but for now it gives people passing by all the info they need.
Spring Growth
16 November 2016: Following glorious early-spring rains, our dams are full, the soil is moist and the vines are flowering. We're in for a busy couple of months mowing between the vines, spraying minimal organic sulphur and keeping the vines under control. We're looking forward to a great summer of growing to produce a superb harvest in 2017.
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