All Things Growing, Fermenting & Making Wine
Cover Crops
With the conversion of our vineyard from a hilling-up vineyard to a geotextile vineyard, we began planting cover crop...
April WOTM: Who Put Forest Floor In My Glass?
By: Mackenzie Brisbois
Where do all those tastes and aromas come from?
Who put forest floor in my glass?
In Jamie Go...
March WOTM: Oxygen
By Mackenzie Brisbois
Oxygen is complicated. It can help, hinder, destroy, build!
To simplify, let’s look at three ma...
February WOTM: Malolactic Fermentation
By: Mackenzie Brisbois
Often called malo or MLF for short, malolactic fermentation is an optional technique employed...
SA x Trail Estate: Part 4 — Harvest Has Begun
Harvest 2022 has begun. We have carefully planned and plotted this amazing winemaking opportunity in South Africa. ...
SA x Trail Estate: Part 3
Written by: Mackenzie BrisboisThe Drift Farm
Trail Estate will be making wine at Bruce Jack’s winery, The Drift.
Loc...
SA X Trail Estate: Part 2
Written by Mackenzie Brisbois
Scouting: Roodeberg Vineyard on Waaihoek RoadThe farm is located in the Breedekloof Wi...
SA X Trail Estate: Part 1
Written by Mackenzie Brisbois.
Scouting: Silkbush Mountain Vineyard
The farm is called Silkbush Mountain Vineyard and...
January 2022 — Pét Nat
I find Pét Nats fascinating for their purity — not in a conventional sense, but in a fruit-meets-fermentation-meets-palate-immediately sense.
Fronte-Snack: A Collaboration with The Grape Witches
In their words:
Allow us to introduce you to a very special collaboration between Grape Witches and Prince Edward Cou...
Harvest 2021
An Afternoon of Harvest. Chardonnay Pick 2021.
A Photo Essay by Ariel Shortt.
If you would like to help us at the wi...
Oak Flavour Compounds
By: Mackenzie Brisbois
Winemakers have a lot of choice when it comes to oak!
I use almost exclusively neutral used ba...