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Wine Partners June Tasting Pack
Wine Partners Winter Pack The wine pack for this Winter season includes a range of wines that are ideal for both entertaining and savouring as the nights become cooler. If you would like to learn more about the vineyards, wines and purchase please click on the wines below to follow the link. McLeish Semillon / […]
Vintage 2022
21/01/2022 As wine producers this time of the year is like a game of poker, we are constantly gambling with the weather conditions. In November 2021 meteorologists declared a La Nina weather event, with the wettest spring in 10 years continuing into early summer. These cooler weather conditions have meant that this years vintage is […]
Wine Partners December Tasting Pack
The wine pack for this festive season includes a range of wines that are ideal for both cellaring and entertaining. If you would like to learn more about the vineyards, wines and purchase please click on the wines below to follow the link. McLeish Semillon 2021 McLeish Estate are one of the most awarded Semillon […]
Vintage Changes & Challenges – the craft of quality wines
It’s the most exciting time of year for winemakers; seeing a long year of work culminate in grapes being snipped from the McLeish Estate vines as we start on our 34th vintage. Hand-harvesting is now underway, with our hard working pickers starting at daybreak to select the highest quality grapes from the canopy. This is […]
First Week of Vintage 2018
Vintage started this week with the first berries being harvest on the 16th of January. It is one of the earliest and driest seasons we have seen in the past two decades. The last of the rain fell in early spring providing great soil moisture and since then we have relied on our irrigation system […]
Vintage 2018 – Pre harvest Report
With picking starting on January 16th with our estate Chardonnay, the McLeish vineyard team are experiencing one of the earliest vintages they have ever seen. The lead up has been busy, testing the grapes and maintaining the vineyards in anticipation for the kick off to Vintage 2018! The growing season for the 2018 vintage followed a […]
