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It`s been a while Auckland but we`ll be spending the day with you on Saturday with South Natural.. the only wineshow to promote Zero-Zero wines. Come and taste our gorgeous perfectly aged natural North Canterbury pinot noir.
Passed a huge milestone today. In a moonboot after 6 weeks in a cast. Feels a bit weird but I`m dead keen to start putting some weight on it and gradually getting back to normal. Thanks Dr/Nurse Ian for taking on everything while i was laid up. 🙏💪🏼👏💕
#vineyarddogs
#motorbike
The dogs just love chasing the quad bike around the vineyard.
Koa, pointy ear adoptive 2year old, learning every trick so quickly. Happy dogs, happy vineyard, great recipe for dedication to making great wine. 👌🐶🍷
#vineyarddog
#tractorlife #precision Diva walking running next to the mulching tractor making sure no posts are hit and the driver keeps between the rows. Such a dedicated dog. All the old prunning goodness retained and returned to the soil.
#vineyarddogs
#agility #adapttothrive
Koa, our new adopted dog is the best dog in the world 😉 besides Diva and Sonic.
Ian`s sense of humour is a bit weird. The hospital should send me home tomorrow around lunch-time all going well. My back-slab will have been replaced with a below-knee cast sometime before then. Can`t say I`m looking forward to navigating through 3 stock dogs, two of them heelers, carrying two sticks. I might just look like a new game to them.
If it weren`t so frustrating I`d have a good laugh. It takes around half an hour to kit up under 4 layers with beanies winter gloves and thermal boots.. to service all the electronic saws and pruners and a couple of minutes to get out to the block get the kit on and get going...
And after half can hour the rain comes and everything is repeated in reverse. And on and on it goes
About 4000 vines (just less than a hectare) still to finish.. a hard remedial prune which entails taking everything back to good wood in the thick original trunk. My aim is to grow a brand new replacement trunk from down where the pinot noir scion wood meets the rootstock.
After 6vweeks of pruning my arms are heavy and tired, and my wrists and elbows throb at night, but the job has to be done in the next fortnight so the surgeon can finally tighten up the slack ligaments and frayed tendons in my ankle and get me up and going for spring. I never imagined it would come down to the wire like this but the pruning job turned out to be somewhat bigger than I`d originally planned. Fingers crossed no more hiccups.
#vineyardpruning Time for Diane to take on the challenge
#organicpinotnoir #tractor #northcanterburywine #regenerativeagriculture #vinyarddogs Di finished taking the nets off yesterday. Stopping the local birds from eating all the grapes is a huge task. The hard working tractor, absolutely central to the task . Sonic and Diva run miles with the netting team "making sure the tractor go forward" 🤣 and all goes well. The vineyard has a lighter feel and we have a sense of relief. 🍷🍷
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