winery clothes

Wine stained clothes, hands and boots in September! Must be malo time..

Almost half a year has passed since the end of vintage and we’ve been kept busy building the cellar door, showing new release wines, hosting wine dinners, the odd export mission and looking at fruit intake for vintage 2015. Whilst it is always fun doing the many and varied things in our little wine business, the most fun is always in …

Singapore Shines

The first place I ever went on an overseas holiday was Singapore. It was 1981 and I was 8 years old! The biggest impressions for me then were the vibrant tropical colours and the amazing smells of so many different dishes being cooked outdoors. It was an extremely busy place with everyone seemingly having a great day. Fast-forward to 2015 …

Izway - Aglianico Vineyard

Aglianico finds some new mates at Izway

Five years down the track, and having survived a mauling by a flock of errant sheep, we finally received our first crop of Aglianico in 2014. “Great work guys!” I hear you say; but who or what is Aglianico? Over the years we have been on the hunt for another red varietal that could match the quality of Mataro, Grenache and Shiraz …

Izway Wines

Vintage Report 2015

The 2015 Vintage began like a little league footy match – enthusiastic, aggressive, frenetic and congested. In similar fashion, the initial chaos petered out and things settled down perfectly to the point where at times I felt like the kid in the back line sitting on the ground making sandcastles out of the dirt in the goal square. The Shiraz …