Oatley Vineyard: The Next Generation(s)

Archive for December, 2020

Click a headline or an image to view full details

2020 Hindsight

Written by Ned, and posted in the:  Barn ConversionChildrenFamilyStoryVineyard Category

How was your 2020? At the start of the year, blissfully pre-pandemic, we set some goals for our escape to the country: give up corporate life, plant a vineyard, convert... read more


An Exceptional Harvest

Written by Ned, and posted in the:  Vineyard Category

This was supposed to be the year we integrated ourselves with all aspects of Oatley viticulture, twins running around the vines while we work, grandparents babysitting, that kind of thing. ... read more


The Field

Written by Ned, and posted in the:  Vineyard Category

What a difference – the field looks huge! Greenslades have done an incredible job. Well beyond their normal scope of work like regular maintenance of Hinkley Point nuclear power station... read more


Timber!

Written by Ned, and posted in the:  Vineyard Category

The hedges are littered with reminders of the last invasive tree disease, Dutch Elm. Lone sentries, some forty years dead, stand above the Blackthorn and Hazel hedgerows, providing a vantage... read more


The Site

Written by Ned, and posted in the:  Vineyard Category

The Field It may not look like it now, but this is our vineyard! Well, it will be with a little help from a very large chainsaw, digger, tractor and... read more


2020 – All Change!

Written by Ned, and posted in the:  FamilyStoryVineyard Category

This years to do list: Give up corporate life, plant a vineyard, convert a barn, sell a house and oh, play in puddles. That sounds achievable doesn’t it? Meet the... read more