Defiant nets! - 20 Mar 15
Defiance under nets for the first time. The nets going out are a significant milestone in the year - it means that the fruit is ripening and the sugar levels increasing. As the colours deepen the numbers of birds that are interested also goes up markedly. I reckon a blackbird can spot a ripe Pinot Noir berry from 1000m (probably a slight exaggeration!). Visitors to the tasting room ask why do we net - and the simple answer is if we didn't we would have very little fruit to harvest, and what we did have would probably be damaged.
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