Some nice undervine debanking work from Captain Debuttage himself @remijacquemain and the @grv_production71260. A quick hand weed (see vid) and the work is done. Season 25/26. #placeofchngingwinds
The season underway. Shoots growing. Frost protection. The first breaking of the soil undervine. The natives in full bloom. #V2026 #placeofchngingwinds
Whirlwind of a trip to London. We love this town. So much wine passion and so many great food & wine venues. It's remarkable how much things have changed (for the better) over the last decade. Made some new friends and bumped into lots of old one
Quick stop off in Singapore to do some work with our importer @clinkclinkshop. Great to meet so many supporters and make new friends. What a city! Thank you for your passion and support: @67pallmallsg @roberto_duran_ms @leclos.sg @southbridgere
Our super high density vines, pruned up and ready for spring. After years of dry growing we have now removed the irrigation line from this area of our vineyard. 2025 was a very dry year and yet these vines and their canopy flourished, despite (or may
Pruning now done. He's a few random shots and a video that captures something of where our vines are at after 13 years of pruning evolution. Of course it's only a few of our roughly 45,000 vines, and its also very hard to capture them well on camera
One of the beautiful wombats that live at Place of Changing Winds, captured masterfully in images and videos by our resident photographer @remijacquemain 😉. This guy (I've got zero idea if it's a male or female - actually very hard to tell) always b
On a frosty Friday morning, before the pruning got started, @kryszed got her drone out. Larderdark to the right, Bush-vine/Co-planted block next to it, Beyond the Forest above the small dam, and High Density & Between Two Mountains behind. Wait f
Mailing list offer out now (join via our website to receive an offer or email orders@placeofchangingwinds.com.au) and trade offer out next week (reach out to your favourite retailer - trade customers please contact Bibendum Wine Co.). As always Estat
Looking forward to releasing our 2023 Estate Pinot Noir & Chardonnay later this month. The powerful, Larderdark Chardonnay, from extremely low yields of 12hl/ha (or 144g/vine on average), is the best white we've made, while the intensely perfumed
Join us! We are looking for two passionate, full-time staff to join our team.  If you have a solid knowledge of vineyard and winery work, and you’re keen to be a part of our no-compromise, cutting edge vineyard project, pulling out a
A sketchy image of the vintage 'A team' enjoying a well earned meal after a long and draining (yet immensely satisfying) harvest. Everything is now picked, all Chardonnay in barrel and mostly dry, and all Pinot pressed off. Good yields and what appea
Killer review by the great Irvine Welsh for our Between Two Mountains Pinot 2022 in the latest (fabulous) Noble Rot Magazine. 🙏@irvine.welsh & @noblerotmag ❤️❤️❤️ #chooselife #choosewine #liveuntilyoudie #trainspotting #placeofchangingwinds
Larderdark x Stockinger. This is brother Remi. Brother Remi is filling a new, 600L, thick-staved Stockinger cask with our beloved Larderdark Chardonnay. Take a look at the following (undoctored) images of the inside of the cask. The tight grain, lon
Pinot Gothic. Our ‘Echalas’ block was picked and processed over the last couple of days (see pics that follow). Feels like this parcel finally has something to say (with the juice offering crazy flavours and sappy freshness). It will now
Day 6 of harvest. In a year like this, when so much of the fruit is immaculate, sorting can feel like a waste of time and (not insignificant!) effort. We really only had one parcel that needed it (thank you weevils!) For all of our other parcels, we'
A fitting (@samsmith) song playing as we hand destemmed some beautiful Pinot from our Beyond the Forest parcel using snippers, leaving the berries perfectly intact with their pedicel attached. We’ll see, once again, what difference it makes aga
First Chardonnay picked today from the Larderdark parcel. As growers, no matter how aspirational, you typically need to let go of the dream of ‘perfection’ (unless you want to go mad), but this year it’s something pretty crazy. Tiny
One for the cultivation nerds. This year we’ve managed to implement a new system of cultivation that allowed us to avoid any mechanisation between the vines. Firstly, and at the right moment, we banked soil along the vine row (buttage) as we al