We were in Cauquenes over a long weekend recently, checking on the new vineyard planting. Over the winter, we cleared two and a half hectares and planted just under one and half. The original idea was to plant all the cleared area, but the nursery that was going to supply a large share of our [...]

We’ve been enjoying a cool spring for the last few weeks, sunny and fairly warm one day, then cloudy and threatening rain the next. Not that the weather around here does much more than threaten to rain—until flowering, that is, but that’s another story. The vines are finally starting to leaf out (or push, as [...]