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Tim's Ravings
Vintage 2024
The parched winter of ‘23 culminated in bushfires. The forecast of El Niño with drought, heatwaves and more fires were too easy to believe. We carefully watered the vines and didn’t plant a mid-row cover crop – it was just too dry. We had to buy water for the winery, so each of the early spring rainfalls felt like a [...]
Vineyard Update
I've got whiplash. This time last year we were knee-deep in water (literally). Now it's dry as a bone, and we've already had a heatwave. Having said that, the vines are looking absolutely superb as I write this with strong and even growth, good leaf colour and good shape. 6 years of all in-house pruning, the [...]
Tim's Musings Summer 2023
One of things I most enjoy at Huntington Estate is making a diverse range of wines. Most regions can produce one or two particular styles but in Mudgee we are blessed with an all-rounder set of terroirs with each excelling according to the increasing capriciousness of seasons. In hot dry years shiraz comes to the fore, [...]
Tim's Musings Spring 2023
Finding the right block of dirt for the right grape variety is a maddeningly cryptic undertaking.At Huntington, many plantings have changed - soil that once nurtured merlot now holds grenache. But the best blocks are over 50 years old and have been left untouched. Blocks 1 and 2 contain vines on their own roots, sourced [...]
Tim's Musings Winter 2023
Finding the right block of dirt for the right grape variety is a maddeningly cryptic undertaking.At Huntington, many plantings have changed - soil that once nurtured merlot now holds grenache. But the best blocks are over 50 years old and have been left untouched. Blocks 1 and 2 contain vines on their own roots, sourced from the same clone. [...]
Vintage 2023 Report
Cold, wet, an unbelievably slow ripening period, very drawn out, and possibly the greatest Mudgee red wine vintage ever...It must be a figment of my imagination. Was it only a couple of years ago that drought and extreme heat battered us? Harvests – when not lost to bushfire smoke taint – were in January and early February. Vines [...]
News from the Winery Autumn 2023
VINTAGE 2023 - THE SEASON No two seasons are the same, but 2023 has been 'extra' different so far! We've had a bit of everything this year, culminating in the latest pick dates I've seen in 26 years here. Our exceptional vineyard team were tested by extreme wet over winter and into early spring which was also [...]
News from the winery Summer 2022
Last year, still scarred by the drought, I told myself I’d never get sick of the rain, whatever havoc it wrought. While I worried about disease in the vineyard, I revelled in the green, I wrote about the earth healing, yada yada yada… One year further away from the last drought (and yes, I know [...]
Tim's Summer Ravings 2022
So, there I was sitting in a private room at a fancy Canberra restaurant in 1993 with Len Evans and Brian Croser, among other famous wine industry dignitaries, having a merry time drinking their wines, most of which were 20 to 30 years old and today would be worth thousands. What could be better than doing [...]
