OATLEY VINEBLOG
An occasional diary of the vineyard year at Oatley
Jane has been blogging about life at our small, west country vineyard since 2006 when she designed our first website on what now looks a very clunky laptop.
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Unlock at Oatley.
Woohoo!! We’re opening May 1 and you can now book online. Sooo looking forward to sharing Oatley again! Picnics, children and dogs VERY welcome. A great...
A bit of a sparkle at Oatley
(Thanks to happy customer Ryan for sharing this photo on www.Instagram.com/itsryanpower)
A bit of fun for Christmas! An Oatley PET NAT!
Naturally...
The good news - thanks for all the orders! And the bad. Serious frost!
Every time one of you sends an order we give a little whoop of joy! A big THANK YOU to all of you! It’ s been a lifeline to us while our cellar door...
Tasting the 2019s
Exciting day! Tasting the new wines. Always one of the year’s highlights. The Madeleine Angevine is clean and balanced and will be bottled next week....
Cripes! That Was a Scary October
Still reeling!
2019 turned into one of our scariest ever vintages.The harvest date for our late-ripening, Riesling-cross Kernling grapes had been...
Basking in a Golden Glow!
Basking in a golden glow at Oatley!
After our first ever international-standard Gold Medal last September in the SW regional competition, we got...
THE 2018s ARE HOME!
For only the second time ever we needed all 12 of our stillages, the collapsible cages used to transport wines in bottle. We had 6,500 bottles to fetch...
TASTING THE 2018s
Wow! Enjoyed tasting our 2018s...
Last Tuesday we drove the hour to Steve Brooksbank’s winery near Shepton Mallet to taste our 2018s after their...
JEWEL-LIKE
Kernling safely in! Our largest Kernling harvest EVER! Beautiful rosy-red clean jewel-like grapes.
But, oh alas, it rained on harvest day. After...
THE IN-BETWEEN TIME
A fave time of year, especially in this unusually golden autumn. The Madeleine is safely in and we can focus on the pretty pink Kernling. It feels like...