Winter and early spring rainfalls and moderate temperatures meant vines grew evenly though out our vineyards from around the spring equinox in late~September. Settled conditions in March allowed an early start to harvest where hand-harvested fruit was ripe and clean with low disease pressure and optimal ripeness. Two days into harvest NZ declared the first Covid-19 lockdown and put enormous pressure on us to bring the harvest in while we still had a few hands onboard. Thanks to their extraordinary efforts, we harvested some of the best quality fruit in our history.