Bottle Closures

Our choice is the screwcap, allowing the wine to develop fruit complexity at a gradual pace. Since 2000 we have chosen to use screwcaps to avoid what was a significant problem of “corked wines”. This character arises from the mould sometimes generated in maturing the cork bark and can range from barely perceptible to blatantly…

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Colin and Rob Forbes do “research” in NZ

On our trip to the extremely picturesque Marlborough region of the South Island of New Zealand we were stunned by the expanse of vineyards.  The region is more than twice as large as the Barossa region.  Much of that is of course planted to Sauvignon Blanc, but there is a significant amount of Riesling which…

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