Rob Dolan Blog
A Quick Summary of Vintage So Far
A quick summary.It’s a 9/10 at the half way mark of Vintage 2017 and it looks like the Yarra Valley has been fortunate on the weather front. After a cool early summer and a nervous January/Feb an a...
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Cellaring good wine at home is a great responsibility, it can be hard work. Firstly, you need to not drink it, you also need to control the temperature, UV, humidity, the list goes on. When you hav...
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Vintage 2017 is fast approaching - We Hope!
Vintage 2017 is fast approaching. Lately we’ve had some cool nights and warm days, perfect for ripening grapes. We are down a little on yields due to some cool wet weather in spring but quality loo...
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Vintage 2016 - An Avalanche of Grapes
Vintage is now over and like waking up after a heavy night on the sauce we have found ourselves wondering what happened and how we got here.In a normal year, there is a natural order of ripening wh...
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When people ask, “hey how would you rate the 2015 vintage”, instinctively I revert back to the stock line – “best vintage in living memory”. As winemakers, it’s what we’re taught to say at uni.In r...
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House Dolan | Sigil White tank bursting at seams on a crimson field | Words Make it fitIf you are a Game of Thrones fan you will understand the previous statements. For the rest of you it represent...
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pictured L-R: Ben Dahlenburg (Eldorado Road), Adrian Santolin (Santolin Wines/Boy Meets Girl) and Shaun Crinion (Dappled Wines)A recent survey of Yarra Valley winemakers has found one in five has a...
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So what do you do outside of vintage?
When winemakers resurface from the hard toils of the vintage period, friends inevitably pose the same question: “what the hell do you guys do for the rest of the year?”Firstly, we don’t just sit ar...
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