At this time of year, once the harvest has been taken, the vines need pruning. It's quite dramatic, with most of the plant ending up on the bonfire, but several people have reassured us that we can't kill the plants and that they grow like weeds!
Our neighbour, Bruce, from the
Fat Pig Vineyard, helped with the first row, but has left us to it for the rest. We have 20 rows (of 21 plants each), but this year we're digging out 12 of those rows to replace them with Chardonnay - at the moment they're all Syrah (Chiraz). It takes around 2hrs to prune one row, so it's probably a good job that there are only 8 to do this first year!
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