Place of Changing Winds Vineyard in Bullengarook, Victoria, Australia | Winery/Vineyard

Place of Changing Winds Vineyard

Locality: Bullengarook, Victoria, Australia

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23.01.2022 While the Pinot ferments enjoy the warmth of the cellar, we are back in the vineyard in this misty cold day. Summer has been wet and mild, all plants enjoyed it, vines and weeds. We complete the mechanised cultivation by hand, starting with these two years old Chardonnay which are doing really great!! #vineyard #vines #vignerons #organic #organicallygrown #handweeding #pioche #automn #macedonranges #chardonnay #pinotnoir @tom.trewin @remijackmain @stuck_ferment @ Place of Changing Winds Vineyard

23.01.2022 We'll be releasing our 2019 wines on to the market next month. Finally, we have a set of wines with the kind of quality we hoped to achieve when we started this project. If you're interested, jump on the mailing list at placeofchangwinds.com.au, or if trade, please get in touch with your Bibendum representative.

21.01.2022 Good times if you are an algae !! Or if you sell anxiolytics to organic growers. Pretty wild ride with regular rain (or snow) since... last February. At the moment, it means unstoppable canopy and high disease pressure, namely downy mildew. To this effect, being organic we spray only contact products authorised in the organic standards. Copper plays a central part of course (and sulfur against powdery), but we have other tricks with mineral and/or biological preparations. ...For these plant protection neirds out there (we have been surprised by the number of people interested in the details of what we spray!) we use two different forms of coppers depending on conditions : copper hydroxide and tribasic copper sulfate. We also use orange essential oil from time to time to help drying oil spots. Potassium bicarbonate and potassium silicate also to help drying and to make leaf skin thicker. Lits of other complements and other options we are looking at. Common point: all these products are only contact! No translaminar or systemic allowed in organic. Meaning every rain event wash it off, and new spray must be applied before next rain, systematically. Spray last week end, spray next week end kind of thing. La Niña year keeps the organic grower on its toes. See more

21.01.2022 Some really flattering and, evocative words from @campbellmattinson on our little project is now up on @winefront.com.au along with reviews for the Clos de la Connerie '19 & Chardonnay '19. On the market from next week. Thank you. #placeofchangingwinds #V2019

19.01.2022 UNDER THE NETS In a normal season (what is this?), nets on means peace of mind and decreasing activity in the vineyard. Not exactly this year. Mild conditions and important rainfall slow the ripening process down. Not a bad thing! Yet to help mot@to waste energy in the process we decided to drop secondary bunches, still green at this stage. Also will avoid too much heterogeneity at picking. A good opportunity to crawl under the nets and have a close look at what’s going on.... We decided not to cultivate before netting (not a hard decision as we try to avoid it close to veraison anyway). We thought building enough competition could be a good hand break in a possibly wet ripening season. Serves us well! Really happy to have this fresh growth pumping out all recent rainfall. Happy organic matter #viticulture #organic #organicallygrown #notillhere #noteverythingisblackandwhite #vignerons #australia #pinotnoir #macedonranges #placeofchangingwinds @tom.trewin @remijackmain @stuck_ferment @highdensityvines @ Place of Changing Winds Vineyard See more

19.01.2022 Shoot thinning and pruning, two sides of the same coin. Some images from the shoot thinning today, with our great team working hard to help maintain the ‘sap flow’ structures we pruned for, as well as directing the plants energy into the appropriate number of shoots per vine. As we Poussard prune, we do not to use contact labour, instead we recruit and carefully train a team of passionate, vineyard-experienced wine people to get the results we need. It takes much more time and energy, but the results speak for themselves. #greatcrew #shootthinning2020 #afterthefrost #poussard #sapflow #highdensityvineyard #organic #placeofchangingwinds

19.01.2022 Posted @withregram @remijacquemain More than overdue drinks with the team! We didn’t find time for our end of shoot thinning party, as we directly got sucked in second, third pass thinning, laterals, and tons of wire lifting. Wild ride. Good to take a minute to breath tonight, enjoy a local white delight and a bracket of whole bunch reds, with a view. Thanks Team!! @lachlanjmccallum @olliebevan @izzy_zazou ... @j.in_vino_veritas @matthew.odriscoll.3 @claudellesavagnin @kiarakurz_ @bree.edgar @adelinezimm @ania_ligas @tom.trewin @stuck_ferment @place_of_changing_winds #viticulture #epamprage #echardage #relevage #shootthinning #poussardpruning #lataillepoussard #vineyard #organicvineyard #australia See more

18.01.2022 A tiny crop has made its way through frost, cold, hail, rain, fires. And it’s starting to look so beautiful with these pretty colours. Nets on, birds out, expectations up. Bring it on V2020! #v2020 #veraison #pinotnoir #highdensityvineyard #viticulture #vignerons #vines #organic #organicallygrown #macedonranges #australia @ Bullengarook, Victoria, Australia

18.01.2022 #Repost @place_of_changing_winds with @get_repost Getting sorted. Bunches and berries. So little fruit but damn, it does look smart. Great work from @remijackmain @tom.trewin with some help from @milly.millard and the teenagers. Here's hoping the wines taste as good as the fruit looks. #placeofchangingwinds #V2020

17.01.2022 Parcel by parcel, selection by selection, our Pinot slowly heading towards ripeness. Still 10 days - 3 weeks away subject to parcel. #placeofchangingwinds #latevintage #V2020 @ Bullengarook, Victoria, Australia

16.01.2022 Master frost this morning... at this stage fortunately, only goes for cold fingers and beautiful pictures. It’s a similar event though to the one which impacted our 2020 quantities very hard. Ironically, today is also the day works start to get our new sprinkler system in the ground to protect us from major frost event!! @ Place of Changing Winds Vineyard

14.01.2022 Young and older. The 2010, served blind, had everyone in the Cote de Nuits (and still so young!) The 2019 VV is a brilliant wine and forms a small part of the finest release I've tasted from Daniel Bouland. #danielbouland #morgon #V2019

10.01.2022 Some nice father's day reading (for those fathers involved in this project anyway) from the doyen of Australian wine writing. Thank you #jameshalliday

09.01.2022 Pressing our many small ferments of Heathcote Syrah is always an exciting and revealing time a time where we start to get an early picture of what the vintage has given us in style and quality. The first things to say is that the quality that has come from our block, now into its fourth year of organic management, has been outstanding and we will make some beautiful wine in the style we are now looking to produce. This year was particularly interesting as we decided to take... a small parcel of fruit from outside our organic area, enabling us to compare conventional vs organic vines in the same vineyard. Following the fruit through ripening and now through fermentation and pressing (we have kept it separate of course) has been a revelation. Of course there are many factors that could be behind dissimilarities between two parcels of vines, even when they are close by in the same vineyard. So we cannot say that the differences we have found in the speed of ripening, the intensity of flavour, the pH, etc, are all, or even mostly due to the difference in practice. But we certainly think that’s the case. #V2020 #heathcotesyrah #organicviticulture #placeofchangingwinds #organicallygrown #syrah #shiraz #australia See more

09.01.2022 Thankfully it wasn't as cold as was being predicted this AM. Still, after the terrible frost of last year it felt good to have the misting system in place and working to protect our vines and their first leaves.#frostfighting #earlybudburst #placeofchangingwinds

06.01.2022 Misty morn in the vines. Gave us a fright at first but not smoke thankfully. Only a nice blanket of moisture. #placeofchangingweather

05.01.2022 Young Gun of Wine have announced their top 50 finalists in the Vineyard of the Year Awards, and a whopping 13 ACO Certified vineyards have been named as finalis...ts! ACO wishes to extend a massive congratulations and good luck to the following operators: Angove Family Winemakers Frankland Estate Gemtree Vineyards / Gemtree Wines, McLaren Vale, Australia Hayes Family Wines Koonara Coonawarra Wines Mewstone Wines Oxford Landing Estates Place of Changing Winds Vineyard Quealy Winemakers Smallfry Wines Tellurian Wines Heathcote Voyager Estate Yangarra Estate Vineyard

02.01.2022 And just like that we started pruning. Like every year, a slow start with lots of discussions, thoughts, books and notes. Not a race, more a marathon, as we prune all our vines ourselves, and this is going to take 8 to 10 weeks, pruning everyday. All the efforts put into pruning and shoot thinning over the last few years pay off, and despite the terrible frost last year, more and more vines show beautiful structures. #pruning #lataillepoussard #poussardpruning #sapflow #softpruning @ Place of Changing Winds Vineyard

02.01.2022 Shoot thinning, wire lifting, tying to echalas, canopy management is in full swing! A challenging and labour intensive season after the frost, fortunately a bunch of fantastic and passionate workers joined the team! #viticulture #shootthinning #canopymanagement #organicviticulture #organicallygrown #lataillepoussard #sapflow #V2020 #pinotnoir #chardonnay #placeofchangingwinds #macedonranges #victoria #australia