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Planning a small vineyard requires careful budgeting and understanding of vine numbers, land size, slopes, and irrigation. Learn about costs, vines, land, slopes and irrigation in this comprehensive starter guide.

Do grapevines in Australia need irrigation? This guide compares dry-grown and irrigated vineyards, explains how to calculate vine water needs, and helps you design a drip system for your block.

A detailed breakdown of costs for establishing a small vineyard, including vines, trellis, wire, soil testing, irrigation, machinery and running expenses.

Planning a home vineyard starts with one big question: how many vines do you need to make wine? This guide breaks down vine-to-bottle ratios, how spacing affects vine density, and what yield per vine means for your block. It includes simple formulas and real-world examples so you can calculate the number of vines needed for your wine ambitions.

Wondering how much land you need to grow grapes? This guide explains the area required for a backyard row, a hobby vineyard and a small commercial vineyard, so you can plan with confidence.

Thinking of planting vines on a hill? Learn the benefits and challenges of sloping vineyards, from better sunlight to erosion and machinery issues, so you can make the right call.

In April 2021, I turned 43. I barely noticed. My daughter Mia was unwell. In May, she was admitted to the hospital and diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes. It ran in the family. A casual comment from a doctor though, had me googling ‘private health screening Melbourne.’ Fast forward to July 2023, and some persistent issues saw me visit the GP. Three months later, I was being wheeled into surgery for lung cancer. A non-smoker; no family history. I was 45.

Vinho Verde, tucked away in the far north of Portugal, has long captured the hearts of wine lovers, not only for its beauty but also for the quality of its wines. Among these, the subregion of Monção and Melgaço stands out, celebrated for producing some of the best alvarinho wines in the world.

While there is a noticeable market trend towards easier-drinking reds, which are generally brought to market more quickly, this shift sometimes bypasses traditional techniques like extended maceration that are key to crafting cellar-worthy wines. This reflects a broader conversation about the balance between modern consumer preferences and traditional winemaking techniques.

A recent study has provided new insights into the origin of headaches caused by red wine consumption, potentially solving a long-standing mystery.

When it comes to the language of rosé, some people would prefer to render it mute, others simply let it get lost in translation, interpreting it only with their eyes in order to judge it by its colour.

Google has evolved into a modern sage, providing a vast database of knowledge to satisfy our burning questions. With a few keystrokes, we turn to Google's wisdom, gaining insights and answers, making it an indispensable source of information in our quest for understanding. Google confidently claims to possess the answers regarding wine, and now you can explore the top three wine-related inquiries frequently posed to Google, presented below for your reading pleasure!

This is such a simple question and one we often get asked. However, there is so much more to this question that I thought it would be a great topic to unpack and address.

There are no hard and fast rules about what constitutes an ‘alternative variety’ – instead, it’s a very relative concept. Alternative varieties can be defined simply as any type of wine that falls outside the mass-consumed mainstream.

Sustainability' is a buzz word at the moment, but it can be thrown around like popcorn at the movies. These 'kernels' of information are priceless to consumers, yet continue to fall through the cracks of our understanding. I want to get a bit serious and clear here about certain practices in this industry, like weed control, which are common knowledge, but not often understood. Practices which hold viticulture back from true sustainability: protecting the environment, supporting social responsibility, maintaining economic feasibility and producing high quality wine.